“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” — 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
“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
“…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
“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
“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 see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that,… — 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
“In every idea emanating from genius, or even in every serious human idea -- born in the human brain -- there always… — 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
“... 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
“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
“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
“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
“Life is full of the comic and is only majestic in its inner sense,” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Compassion was the most important, perhaps the sole law of human existence.” — 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
“They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“what matters most, it all produces an unpleasant impression, for we are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one… — 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
“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
“Their favourite phrase! From which it follows that, if society is normally organised, all crime will cease at once, since there will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“A fresh dream-fresh happiness! A fresh rush of delicate, voluptuous poison! What is real life to him ! To his corrupted eyes… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Here was my whole life hanging on his one word! Surely I was serious enough?” — 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
