The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby politely hinting that I, too,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Never in my life did I lend the unfortunate Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (for he is unfortunate now, in any case) the sum… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I believe this is so and I'm prepared to vouch for it, because it seems to me that the meaning of man's… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my sufferings.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is better to go wrong in one's own way than to go right in someone else's. — 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
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The chief thing is to love others likeyourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will… — 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
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