It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Animal love Copy Share Image
The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners — Fyodor Dostoevsky Civilization Copy Share Image
My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheist Copy Share Image
“E po, mirupafshim! Po me mbyt trishtimi, nga merzia. Seç kam nje brenge ne shpirt, Makar Aleksejeviç. As vete s'e di arsyen.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian Copy Share Image
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime Copy Share Image
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Death Copy Share Image
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beautiful Copy Share Image
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Existence Copy Share Image
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Demand Copy Share Image
'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Allegory Copy Share Image
“Lere pastaj qe ka dhe jo pak pasunare qe s'i pelqen te degjojne ankimet me ze te larte te varfanjakeve. Se, sigurisht,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian Copy Share Image
If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky America Copy Share Image
My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Anger Copy Share Image
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Alive Copy Share Image
“I want to attempt a thing like that and am frightened by these trifles," he thought, with an odd smile. "Hm …… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Age Copy Share Image
“One cannot prove anything here, but it is possible to be convinced.' How? By what?' By the experience of active love. Try… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dreams Copy Share Image
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Distraction Copy Share Image
“The centripetal force on our planet is still fearfully strong, Alyosha. I have a longing for life, and I go on living… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Blue sky Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Husband Copy Share Image
Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Funny Copy Share Image
“For the secret of human existence lies not only in living, but in knowing what to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Human existence Copy Share Image
“In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“if one waits for everyone to get wiser it will take too long….” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime Copy Share Image
