“For we've reached a point where we regard real "living life" almost as labor, almost as service, and we all agree in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Enough," he pronounced resolutely and triumphantly. "I've done with fancies, imaginary terrors and phantoms! Life is real! haven't I lived just now?… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Towards the end of his life he became a Liberal of the type common in the forties and fifties.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You long for life and try to settle the problems of life by a logical tangle. And how tiresome, how insolent your… — 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
“Months and years!' he would exclaim. 'Why recon the days? One day is enough for a man to know all happiness.” — 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
“Dear friends, don't be afraid of life! How good is life when one does something good and just!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I think every one should love life above everything in the world.” “Love life more than the meaning of it?” “Certainly, love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You've turned to wood, he observed, "you've not only renounced life, your own interests and society's, your duty as a citizen and… — 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
“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
“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“it may happen that he sends a letter in verse, a mag-ni-fi-cent one, but which afterward he might wish to bring back… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are cases when one may sometimes burn one's ships and not go home again. Life does not consist only of lunches… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected… — 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
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“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
“I think everyone should love life above everything in the world." "Love life more than the meaning of it?" "Certainly, love it,… — 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
