“(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like," Porfiry Petrovitch began again, "but I can't resist. Allow me… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Why does my action strike them as so horrible? Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is different with the upper classes. They, following science, want to base justice on reason alone, but not with Christ, as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But how did I murder her? Is that how men do murders? Do men go to commit a murder as I went… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are moments when people love crime," Alyosha said pensively. "Yes, yes! You've spoken my own thought, they love it, they all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I once saw a convict who had been twenty years in prison and was being released take leave of his fellow prisoners.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's like this,' began the elder. 'All these sentences of hard labour in Siberian prisons, and formerly with flogging, too, do not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“At first—long before indeed—he had been much occupied with one question; why almost all crimes are so badly concealed and so easily… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Young man,” he went on, raising his head again, “in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was the devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!” he repeated with… — 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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