When I am upstairs in my little garret I have only to…

“You have become her sadness and live in a different state of mind”

— Dostoyevsky

“Tajna covecjeg zivota nije u tome da samo zivi, vec u tome zasto zivi.”

— Dostoyevsky

“Here we have bookish dreams, a heart unhinged by theories.”

— Dostoyevsky

“...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them…

— Dostoyevsky

“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men…

— Dostoyevsky

“Glupan koji je postao svestan da je glupan nije vise glupan.”

— Dostoyevsky

“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not stupid, rather…

— Dostoyevsky

“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.”

— Dostoyevsky

“An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your…

— Dostoyevsky

“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.”

— Dostoyevsky

“Ja na sve pristajem, samo nek je meni dobro.”

— Dostoyevsky

“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people;…

— Dostoyevsky

“In place of dialectics, life had arrived.”

— Dostoyevsky

“Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.”

— Dostoyevsky

“In the whole world there is no deeper, no mightier literary work. This is, so far, the last and greatest expression of human thought...…

— Dostoyevsky