To begin with unlimited freedom is to end with unlimited despotism. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Despotism Copy Share Image
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Desire Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But how could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Existentialism Copy Share Image
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Men Copy Share Image
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Love Copy Share Image
Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Angel Copy Share Image
Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Abstract Copy Share Image
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Devil Copy Share Image
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Earth Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“For not only is an odd man "not always" a particular and isolated case, but, on the contrary, it sometimes happens that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“What does reason know? It knows only what it has managed to learn (and it may never learn anything else; that isn't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Human nature Copy Share Image
I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Destruction Copy Share Image
“I had the patience to sit like a fool with these people, listening to them for four hours on end, and never… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Patience Copy Share Image
“Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moment of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Doubt Copy Share Image
“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dreams Copy Share Image
“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Choice Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Books Copy Share Image
“Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Anxiety Copy Share Image
“It was a lovely night, one of those nights, dear reader, which can only happen when you are young. The sky was… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Books Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Beauty Copy Share Image
Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Heart Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Eternal Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Stranger Copy Share Image
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Animal Copy Share Image
“Naten s'kisha gjume, me mbyste pendimi, kot thone qe pendimi te lehteson.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian Copy Share Image
