And with love one can live even without happiness.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

— Anonymous

“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at…

— Anonymous

Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew…

— Anonymous

Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

— Anonymous

“for man seeks not so much God as the miraculous”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A new philosophy, a way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much…

— Rien Dijkstra

“Let me add, however, that in every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get bedazzled with…

— Avijeet Das

“Your hand is cold, mine is as hot as fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! ... Oh, how unbearable is the happy person at…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness of the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams,…

— Anonymous

“You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky