“Already at the age of sixteen I wondered at them gloomily; I was amazed at the pettiness of their minds, the stupidity… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“…have you noticed, Rodion Romanovitch, that in our Petersburg circles, if two clever men meet who are not intimate, but respect each… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What do you consider to be the greatest social virtue? In private conversation Evstafi Ivanovitch once told me that the greatest social… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Gentle and kindly creatures don’t put up much resistance and, though they may not reveal much of themselves, they have no idea… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen!” Pulcheria Alexandrovna interrupted timidly, but it only added fuel to the flames. “What do you think?” shouted Razumihin, louder than ever,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You see, I’m a bachelor , a man of no consequence and not used to society; besides, I have nothing before me,… — 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
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