“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“..such a cross is too much for you. You wanted to regenerate another man in yourself through suffering; I say just remember… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I've been sitting here now, and do you know what I was saying to myself? If I did not believe in life,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What was the meaning of this cheap agitation over trifles which I had noticed in myself of late, which hindered me from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No, life is only given to me once and I shall never have it again ... #YOLO!!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Well, listen then. On the other side, fresh young lives thrown away for want of help and by thousands, on every side!… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“At seven o’clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow. ‘Away with the past. I’ve done with the old… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Is there a living man in the country?" cried the Russian hero. I cry the same, though I am not a hero,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced of the existence” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And if once a girl’s heart is moved to pity, it’s more dangerous than anything. She is bound to want to ‘save… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What do you mean by isolation?' I asked him. 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When all are undressed, one is somehow not ashamed, but when one's the only one undressed and everybody is looking, it's degrading,' he kept… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited. How explain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be good without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From an encounter in 1862... “Dickens told me,” Dostoyevsky recalled in a letter written years later, “that all the good, simple people in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be the top drawer," he reflected. "So she carries the keys in a pocket on the right. All in one bunch on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“- You take evil for good. It's a passing crisis. It's the result of your illness, perhaps. - You do despise me! It's simply… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
