It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Atheist Copy Share Image
You must accept it as it is, and hence accept all consequences. A wall is indeed a wall. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Christ Copy Share Image
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know, my dear Sir, the position of a man who has nowhere to go, and yet has to go somewhere?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Insightful Copy Share Image
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Anxiety Copy Share Image
“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Art Copy Share Image
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Humans Copy Share Image
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Courage Copy Share Image
“Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and... absolutely nothing else. And through the development of this capacity,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Civilization Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
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
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
“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
“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
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I hated my face, for example, found it odious, and even suspected that there was some mean expression in it, and therefore… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Challenges Copy Share Image
“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Dream Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Action 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
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky History Copy Share Image
There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Childhood Copy Share Image
Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bears Copy Share Image
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Books Copy Share Image
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Accumulating Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Drag mi je poneki čovjek kojeg gdjekad, zamisli, i ne znaš zašto voliš, drag mi je poneki ljudski pothvat u koji si… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
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