“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
“Oh! in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were shining to him from the abyss of space, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Cheap heroism is always easy, and even to sacrifice life is easy too; because it is only a case of hot blood… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But then, we have science, and with its help we shall discover Truth once more; then we shall accept it in full… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory,… — 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
“Human nature is not taken into account, it is excluded, it's not supposed to exist! They don't recognise that humanity, developing by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And then there's another snag you keep coming across: such decent and sensible people keep appearing in life, such wise men, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me more than anything.” — 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
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — 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
“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
“The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great.… — 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
“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
“If I did not believe in life, if I were to lose faith in the woman I love, if I were to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I really believe that at the start of the journey the condemned man, sitting in the tumbril, must feel that an infinite… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[Men] 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
“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
“Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our… — 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
“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
