“I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love beauty. I am a nihilist, but I love beauty. Do nihilists not love beauty? They” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing like it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For any one to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And do you know, I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love for humanity, it would… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If you ever fall in love with some one, God give you happiness with her! I won't wish anything for her, for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I hated them horribly, though perhaps I was worse than any of them. They repaid me in the same way, and did… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I must make you one confession,” Ivan began. “I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I worship her, Alyosha, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Contemplative love seeks a heroic deed that can be accomplished without delay and in full view of everyone. Indeed, some people are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And no one, no one should know what passes between husband and wife if they love one another. And whatever quarrels there… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Now, I did know a certain young lady of the 'romantic' generation of not so long ago who, after being mysteriously in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen," she said taking my hand. "Tell me: you wouldn't have behaved like this, would you? You would not have abandoned a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If the wickedness of people arouses indignation and insurmountable grief in you, to the point that you desire to revenge yourself upon… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But, my God, how could I have thought it? How could I have been so blind, when everything had been taken by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love God's people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your slothfulness and disdainful pride, or worse… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But no, no, I am not to blame, Nastenka; I feel that, I know that, because my heart tells me I am… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Another time, twice, in fact, I tried hard to be in love. I suffered, too, gentlemen, I assure you. In the depth… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a doctor," the elder remarked. "He was then… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For the love of Christ give me a groat!” in a voice so hoarse and broken that I started, and felt a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love God's people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we are no holier than those that are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am sorry I cannot say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Just try to let yourself be carried away blindly by your feelings, without reflection, without a primary cause, suppressing consciousness even for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly… — 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
