“Listen, then: we are not with you, but with him, that is our secret! For a long time now - eight centuries… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how… — 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
“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
“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Pine trees are not like human beings, they go for a long time without altering...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I heard exactly the same thing, a long time ago to be sure, from a doctor," the elder remarked. "He was then… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is an unchristian religion, in the first place!' the prince resumed in great agitation and with excessive sharpness. 'That's in the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you dream strange dreams, impossible and unnatural; you wake up and remember them clearly, and are surprised at a strange fact:… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Just try to suppose that I may not know how to behave with dignity. That is, perhaps I'm a dignified man, but… — 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
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