“I've found out more in this one cursed night than I'd have learned in twenty years of living.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“All my life I did not want it to be only words. This is why I lived, because I kept not wanting… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would rather destroy himself though he had bread in abundance.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen, Kolya, by the way, you are going to be a very unhappy man in your life...But on the whole you will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It must be true that the whole second half of a man's life is most often made up only of habits accumulated… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” — 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
“And even if, in this manifestation, our life frequently turns out to be rubbishy, it's nevertheless life and not just the extraction… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Practicality is a difficult thing to find; it does not drop down from heaven. And for the last two hundred years we… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I don't know how it is with others, and my feeling is that I cannot be like any other. Any other thinks,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I know about an actual murder over a watch, it's in all the newspapers now. If a writer had invented it, the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Can I possibly not understand myself that I'm a lost man? But--why can't I resurrect? Yes! it only takes being calculating and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true that you insisted you knew no difference in beauty between some brutal sensual stunt and any great deed, even… — 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
“Not one people has ever yet organised itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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 Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are moments in the life of old liars who have been play-acting all their lives when they are so carried away… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, I had this dream then, my dream of the third of November! They tease me now that it was just a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But that is what the scoffers don’t understand: “He had a dream,” they say, “a delirium, a hallucination.” Eh! As if that’s… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“One life passed, another began, then that passed and a third began, and there's still no end. All the ends are cut… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Ah, Nastenka! Why, one thanks some people for being alive at the same time with one; I thank you for having met… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I consider myself an intelligent man, only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor to finish anything.” — 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
“All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“with love one can live even without happiness. Even in sorrow life is sweet; life is sweet, however one lives.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Thus a man will sometimes suffer half an hour of mortal fear with a robber, but once the knife is finally at… — 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
“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
“Why did I accept death? But I will ask, what use was life to me after that revolver had been raised against… — 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
“I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No, life is only given to me once and I shall never have it again; I don't want to wait for 'the… — 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
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