“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
“So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indisputable… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Enjoyment is more subjective than evaluation. Whether you prefer peaches to pears is a question of taste, which is not quite true… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“His unrivaled genius as an ideological novelist was this capacity to invent actions and situations in which ideas dominate behavior without the… — Joseph Frank Copy Share Image
“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young… — Bruce Robinson Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The Dream of a Queer Fellow I write the words again and they appear doubly pregnant with meaning. It is a true… — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“In an enchanting encounter with the myriad books that I met in a cosy book shop today, I couldn't help but get… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky there were things unbelievable and not to be believed, but some so true they changed you as you read them;… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable peculiarity. Both were convinced… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
