“Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He could not pass by children without his soul being shaken: such is the man.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He had a distant sense that all this optimism was also morbid” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give a true account, for there were no thoughts in Ivan's… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He walked, looking about him angrily and distractedly. All his ideas now seemed to be circling round some single point, and he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Recalling it afterwards, that moment stood out in his mind vividly, distinctly, for ever; he could not make out how he had… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He assumed that there must be a connection between all that had happened yesterday and all that surrounded him now. At last,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“the dark young man had been yawning and looking aimlessly out of the window, impatiently expecting the end of the journey. He… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late. But… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the… — 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
