The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
