“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most typical and characteristic aspects; these are the people who are usually called "ordinary" and accounted as "the majority,"… — Dostoevsky Copy Share
“Corrupt and often cruel in his lust, like some noxious insect, Fyodor Pavlovitch was sometimes, in moments of drunkenness,overcome by superstitious terror and a moral convulsion which took an almost physical form. ‘My soul’s simply quaking in my throat at those times,’ he used to say. At such moments he liked to feel that there was near at hand, in… — Dostoevsky Copy Share
“...if it had to be shame, then let it be shame; if it had to be disgrace, then let it be disgrace; if it… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You ask yourself: where are your dreams now? And you shake your head and say how swiftly the years fly by! And you ask yourself again: what have you done with your best years, then? Where have you buried the best days of your life? Have you lived or not? Look, you tell yourself, look how cold the world is… — Dostoevsky Copy Share
“Two times two is four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.” — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most typical and characteristic aspects; these are the people who are usually called "ordinary" and accounted as "the majority," and who actually do make up the great majority of society. In their novels and stories writers most often try… — Dostoevsky Copy Share
“Even if many really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he would not become reasonable, but would purposely do something perverse out of simple ingratitude, simply to gain his point. (...) for the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself… — Dostoevsky Copy Share
“Even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They say the sun brings life to the universe. The sun will rise and--look at it. Isn't it dead? Everything is dead. Dead men… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
