“After all, man may be fond not only of well-being. Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as much in his interest as well-being?” — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
“A novel requires a hero, and here there's a deliberate collection of all the traits for an anti-hero” — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
“I know that, like many other writers, I have many faults, for I am the first to be dissatisfied with myself . . .… — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
“A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.” — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
“...There,in his foul, stinking cellar, our offended, down-trodden and ridiculed mouse immerses himself in cold, venomous and, cheifly, everlasting spite. For forty years on… — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I’ve never been able to start or… — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
“After all, man may be fond not only of well-being. Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as much… — Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Copy Share Image
