“And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I could never stand more than three months of dreaming at a time without feeling an irresistible desire to plunge into society.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The execution of the deed is sometimes masterfully done, in the most ingenious fashion, yet the control of the individual actions that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A fresh dream-fresh happiness! A fresh rush of delicate, voluptuous poison! What is real life to him ! To his corrupted eyes… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Can it be that he has only seen her in seductive visions, and that this passion has been nothing but a dream?… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I did dream of it, chiefly because 'all things are lawful.' That was quite right what you taught me, for you talked… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And it all flew away like a dream--even my passion, and yet it really was strong and true, but...where has it gone… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact:… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But even to him I used to go only when such a spell came, and my dreams had reached such happiness that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But that is what the scoffers don’t understand: “He had a dream,” they say, “a delirium, a hallucination.” Eh! As if that’s… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Why is it that when you awake to the world of realities you nearly always feel, sometimes very vividly, that the vanished… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I used to dream like that, till i nearly went out of my mind ...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dreams appear much more prominent and clear when the dreamer is in an unhealthy state - they have an extraordinary semblance of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And we may ask the scornful themselves: If our hope is a dream, when will you build up your edifice and order… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in… — 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
