“Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't that true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I should like to know what people fear the most: whatever is contrary to their usual habits, I imagine.” — 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