Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
“He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“It was not surprising that after the war Dostoevsky was linked to Kierkegaard as a prophet of social resignation.” — Martin Jay Copy Share Image
I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the… — Elizabeth Blackburn Copy Share Image
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Comparisons have been made with Stirner, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Camus, to name only a few.3 He won tributes from Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn,… — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“In Dostoevsky illness and death were almost always dirty, impoverished affairs. Crushed beneath wagon wheels, mud, typhus, blood-stained handkerchiefs. And so on.… — Lindqvist John Ajvide Copy Share Image
The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are… — Richard Lewis 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
“Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don’t trouble it, don’t harass them, don’t deprive… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
When he looks back, the critic sees a eunuch's shadow. Who would be a critic if he could be a writer? Who… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“...my longing was for Russia...Not Soviet Russia. But nineteenth-century Russia, the Russia of Dostoevsky's saintly prostitutes and Alyosha; of Tolstoy's Pierre; and… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
I just can't imagine my life without Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov. I can spin off of that and talk about Crime… — Gordon T. Smith Copy Share Image
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon.… — Akira Kurosawa 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
“Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If he tells the truth, it is because the most reeking lie no longer intoxicates him, even though he swallow it not… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“[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
“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement is that? For a… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn 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
“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
“For who brooded over the meaninglessness of life anymore? Teenagers. They were the only ones who were preoccupied with existential issues, and… — Knausgaard 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
“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
“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
“The book was called Man’s Search for Meaning by the Jewish author Viktor Frankl. The book had been a real-life story about… — Erik Hamre Copy Share Image
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