“The sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of all sacrifices” — 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 am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in… — 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
“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
“[...] 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
“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
“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
“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
“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Well, listen then. On the other side, fresh young lives thrown away for want of help and by thousands, on every side!… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“…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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“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
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“- 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
“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
“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
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