“And wasn't it all the same whether it was a dream or a reality?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I used to dream like that, till i nearly went out of my mind ...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“it was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But then, we have science, and with its help we shall discover Truth once more; then we shall accept it in full… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] My dream is to become incarnate, but so that it's final, irrevocable, in some fat, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound merchant's wife, and to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I did dream of it, chiefly because 'all things are lawful.' That was quite right what you taught me, for you talked… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I tell you what, I can't help coming here tomorrow, I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, I had this dream then, my dream of the third of November! They tease me now that it was just a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality. The resulting picture is sometimes… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — 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