“Alyosha,” she murmured again, “look out the door, see if mama is eavesdropping.” “Very well, Lise, I will look, only wouldn’t it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps one may be out late, and had got separated from one's companions. Oh horrors! Suddenly one starts and trembles as one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For our children-not your children, but ours-the children of the poor gentlemen looked down upon by everyone-know what justice means, sir, even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From the house of my childhood I have brought nothing but precious memories, for there are no memories more precious than those… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He could not pass by children without his soul being shaken: such is the man.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But the foolish children will have to learn some day that, rebels though they be and riotous from nature, they are too… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such questions? No, they cannot,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I’ve alway been struck by how little adults understand children, even their own fathers and mothers. Nothing should be kept from children… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, they certainly are poor — Oh, my God, how poor! At the same time, never a sound comes from their room.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“God has had pity on me and is calling me to Himself. I know I am dying, but I feel joy and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now — a real child. Oh! you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In the land of Uz, there lived a man, righteous and God-fearing, and he had great wealth, so many camels, so many… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Rebellion? I don't like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. "One cannot live by rebellion, and I want… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I will tell you that I am a child of this century, a child of disbelief and doubt. I am that today… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“As a child he was fond of hanging cats and then burying them with ceremony.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
