“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,'… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But these are all golden dreams. Oh, tell me, who first announced, who was the first to proclaim that man does dirty… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I tell you what, I can't help coming here tomorrow, I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“one deceives oneself and unconsciously believes that real true passion is stirring one’s soul; one unconsciously believes that there is something living,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“it's as if I'm afraid to spoil the charm of what has only just passed by a serious book or some serious… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book—afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He had not far to go; he knew indeed how many steps it was from the gate of his lodging house: exactly… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He was in the hospital from the middle of Lent till after Easter. When he was better, he remembered the dreams he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am sorry I cannot say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] My dream is to become incarnate, but so that it's final, irrevocable, in some fat, two-hundred-and-fifty-pound merchant's wife, and to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And wasn't it all the same whether it was a dream or a reality?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality. The resulting picture is sometimes… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, I had this dream then, my dream of the third of November! They tease me now that it was just a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And is it only a dream, that in the end man will find his joy in deeds of enlightenment and mercy alone,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen, listen!" I interrupted her. "Forgive me if I tell you something else.... I tell you what, I can't help coming here… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“it was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I dare not dream of hope, for i am not worthy of it. But after a word from you i can accept… — 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
