“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men may be coarsened and hardened into a brute by habit. Blood and power intoxicate; coarseness and… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people;… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not stupid, rather… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When I am upstairs in my little garret I have only to remember and imagine the rustle of your dress, and I am ready… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
