“I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Možda je tada samo po snazi svojih želja i ocijenio sebe kao čovjeka kome je dozvoljeno više nego drugima.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Your hand is cold, mine is as hot as fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! ... Oh, how unbearable is the happy… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that’s left… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My God, but what do I care about the laws of nature and arithmetic if for some reason these laws and two… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Let me add, however, that in every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the… — 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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