“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Another time, twice, in fact, I tried hard to be in love. I suffered, too, gentlemen, I assure you. In the depth… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I must make you one confession,” Ivan began. “I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love is a holy mystery and ought to be hidden from all other eyes, whatever happens. That makes it holier and better.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Contemplative love seeks a heroic deed that can be accomplished without delay and in full view of everyone. Indeed, some people are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love God's people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your slothfulness and disdainful pride, or worse… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And how can one love two at once? With two different kinds of love? That’s interesting . . . poor idiot” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... the face of a man often hinders many people not practiced in love, from loving him.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I hated them horribly, though perhaps I was worse than any of them. They repaid me in the same way, and did… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love beauty. I am a nihilist, but I love beauty. Do nihilists not love beauty? They” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“...For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“From the house of my childhood I have brought nothing but precious memories, for there are no memories more precious than those… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced of the existence” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If the wickedness of people arouses indignation and insurmountable grief in you, to the point that you desire to revenge yourself upon… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am sorry I can say nothing more to console you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared… — 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
“...for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate… — 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
