“Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every man who has no friend… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In every man, of course, a demon lies hidden-the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We’ve grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is that instinctive need of having a worship in common that is the chief suffering of every man, the chief concern… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is this demand for a universality of worship that has been the chief torment of each and every man individually and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What answer had your lecturer in Moscow to make to the question why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But man seeks to worship what is established beyond dispute, so that all men would agree at once to worship it. For… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier… — 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
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