“I decided to give him books. I knew that he had long wanted to possess a complete set of Pushkin’s works, in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That's good,' she said, 'you go on like that, reading books. I'll make you a list myself of the books you ought… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What a splendid thing is literature, what a splendid thing! It strengthens and instructs the heart of man. Literature is a sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“it's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, a question remains before us all the same: what is a novelist to do with ordinary, completely "usual" people, and how… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh literature is a wonderful thing, Varenka, a very wonderful thing: I discovered that from being with those people the day before… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Because reading books and having them bound represent two enormously different stages of development. First, people gradually get used to reading, over… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Go and tell," I whispered to him. There was little voice left in me, but I whispered it firmly. Then I took… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
