“Is this what is called remorse of conscience or repentance? I do not know, and I cannot tell to this day. Perhaps… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Repeat to yourself every day and as often as you can: ‘O Lord, have mercy on all those who will appear before… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I worship her, Alyosha, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Gentlemen, we are all cruel, we are all monsters, we all make people weep, mothers and nursing babies, but of all--let it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Farther on, in another place, she wrote: ‘Do not consider my words as the sickly ecstasies of a diseased mind, but you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting… — 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