I don't lie to myself and I am extremely vindictive anyways.

Notes From Underground?

>>24904263 Brothers Karamazov, from a scene where Elder Zosima is speaking to a merchant, IIRC.

i fucking sit around doing literally nothing all day every day i wish i could at least read so that i feel like im making some kind of progress somewhere

How did Dostoevsky know about the 'making a mountain out of a molehill' meme? Do they even have moles on the Leningrad? Did Dostoevsky steal English language memes or did someone translate Russian idioms to English?

>>24904867 both russian and english never invented anything of their own. it's probably stolen from french or german.

>>24904260 You disprove your claim in the making of it.

Do russians have the phrase "make a mountain out of a molehill" word for word like that?

>>24904867 Oh fug got there before me

>The earliest recorded use of the alliterative phrase making a mountain out of a molehill dates from 1548. The word mole was less than two hundred years old by then. Previous to that it had been known by its Old English name wand, which had slowly changed to want. A molehill was known as a wantitump, a word that continued in dialect use for centuries more.[5] The former name of want was then replaced by mold(e)warp (meaning earth-thrower),[6] a shortened version of which (molle) began to appear in the later 14th century[7] and the word molehill in the first half of the 15th century.[8] >The idiom is found in Nicholas Udall's translation of The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the newe testamente (1548) in the statement that "The Sophistes of Grece coulde through their copiousness make an Elephant of a flye, and a mountaine of a mollehill." The comparison of the elephant with a fly (elephantem ex musca facere) is an old Latin proverb that Erasmus recorded in his collection of such phrases, the Adagia,[9] European variations on which persist. The mountain and molehill seem to have been added by Udall[10] and the phrase has continued in popular use ever since. If the idiom was not coined by Udall himself, the linguistic evidence above suggests that it cannot have been in existence long.

>>24904913 There is not specific word for a molehill in Russian and I have never heard of such an idiom but we have "to make an elephant out of a fly" that serves the same purpose.

>>24904963 Russia has elephants?

>>24904967 Russia is their ancestral land.

>>24904945 you can't trust english wikipedia to write an unbiased article on english language. there has to be at least 2 other non-translated/copypasted pages that affirms this view to confirm it

>>24904978 I can't trust you to speak of bias after your comment about the english language supposedly never coining original linguistic innovations either, that proves a level of linguistic ignorance to where I shouldn't even be responding to you to begin with

it's do

>>24904974 >Elephants: hmmmm, its the middle of an ice age, I think I'll grow long fur and move to Siberia >Elephants: ice age over & planet getting hot? I move to africa and india weird species

>>24904177 good book, man

True.

i like this part from raw youth

Sounds stupid. I have no love, because love doesn#t even exist, nor does any society exist where I live.

“Sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation. But it was all a dream; no Eve soothed my sorrows nor shared my thoughts; I was alone. I remembered Adam’s supplication to his Creator. But where was mine? He had abandoned me, and in the bitterness of my heart I cursed him.”

>>24905481 Sounds like a KC schizo who thinks his observations and takes are universal

>>24905565 Damn.

>>24905096 Is that from Nathan Branden?

>>24904963 in Dutch we call it making an elephant out of a mosquito

>>24905761 Mosquitos are far deadlier, this is a dumb thing to say.

>>24905761 in Finnish it's making an ox out of a fly

Dostoevsky is like a 19th century Philip Dick, but they didn't have schizo meds yet back then

>>24904867 >>24904913 Idioms are translated by being replaced by an idiom of equivalent meaning, not necessarily literally equivalent words. >Главное, самому себе не лгите. Лгущий самому себе и собственную ложь свою слушающий до того доходит, что уж никакой правды ни в себе, ни кругом не различает, а стало быть входит в неуважение и к себе и к другим. Не уважая же никого, перестает любить, а чтобы, не имея любви, занять себя и развлечь, предается страстям и грубым сладостям, и доходит совсем до скотства в пороках своих, а все от беспрерывной лжи и людям и себе самому. Лгущий себе самому прежде всех и обидеться может. Ведь обидеться иногда очень приятно, не так ли? И ведь знает человек, что никто не обидел его, а что он сам себе обиду навыдумал и налгал для красы, сам преувеличил, чтобы картину создать, к слову привязался и из горошинки сделал гору, -- знает сам это, а все-таки самый первый обижается, обижается до приятности, до ощущения большего удовольствия, а тем самым доходит и до вражды истинной... literally "to make a mountain out of a small bean" (probably partly based on sound-play: iz GORoshinki sdelal GORu)

>>24904867 >>24904913 Idioms are translated by being replaced by an idiom of equivalent meaning, not necessarily literally equivalent words. >Главное, самому себе не лгите. Лгущий самому себе и собственную ложь свою слушающий до того доходит, что уж никакой правды ни в себе, ни кругом не различает, а стало быть входит в неуважение и к себе и к другим. Не уважая же никого, перестает любить, а чтобы, не имея любви, занять себя и развлечь, предается страстям и грубым сладостям, и доходит совсем до скотства в пороках своих, а все от беспрерывной лжи и людям и себе самому. Лгущий себе самому прежде всех и обидеться может. Ведь обидеться иногда очень приятно, не так ли? И ведь знает человек, что никто не обидел его, а что он сам себе обиду навыдумал и налгал для красы, сам преувеличил, чтобы картину создать, к слову привязался и из горошинки сделал гору, -- знает сам это, а все-таки самый первый обижается, обижается до приятности, до ощущения большего удовольствия, а тем самым доходит и до вражды истинной... literally "to make a mountain out of a small bean" (probably partly based on sound-play: iz GORoshinki sdelal GORu)

Freud wrote books of psychology. Also some women.

>>24905522 This doesn't actually disprove the quote, the author wrote: lying => no love

>>24906358 I have read some of Doestoevsky and Dick, they are different.

There are whole songs about love that don't get anywhere near these verse from Queen Omega.

>>24904177 platitudes generalization romantic idea of authenticity

In the middle ages, the definition of insanity was actually believing your own bullshit. When I read this, it reminded me of KC.

>>24905481 Bustle fashion is literally copying vantablack African pygmy niggers. 19th century European women already wanted to have big nigger ass.

>>24906906 Seem like you want to believe in your on worth compared to other Bernds?

>>24906669 I wonder if that one has any relation to the "hill of beans" idiom