“For what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... the extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted, which unaccountably and suddenly came over him.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Something new seemed to be accomplishing itself within him, and one of the things that went with it was a kind of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We are assured that the world is becoming more and more united, is being formed into brotherly communion, by the shortening of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“To begin with, at home I spent most of my time reading. I wanted to stifle all that was continuously boiling up… — 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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