“fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on… — 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
“As soon as he reflected seriously he was convinced of the existence of God and immortality, and at once he instinctively said… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Because I'll tell everything to you alone, because it's necessary, because you're necessary, because tomorrow I'll fall from the clouds, because tomorrow… — 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
“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For each now strives to isolate his person as much as possible from the others, wishing to experience within himself life's completeness,… — 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
“Reality is infinitely diverse. It resists classification, inward life. Peculiar to us...not simply the official existence.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, now, life, life! I lifted up my hands and called upon eternal truth, not with words, but with tears; ecstasy, immeasurable… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] And me? I suffer, and still I do not live. I am an x in an indeterminate equation. I am… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I wish so much to live again! Each minute, each instant of life should be blessedness for man... they should, surely… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Each man cannot judge except by himself," he said, blushing. "There will be entire freedom when it makes no difference whether one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether… — 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
“[The Devil] In my opinion, there is no need to destroy anything, one needs only destroy the idea of God in mankind,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?” — 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
Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live. — 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
“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could… — 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
“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
