“She’s an arrogant woman! She doesn’t want to admit that she’s doing it to benefit others! Oh, these vile characters! Their love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love God's people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we are no holier than those that are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I looked at her for three seconds, or five perhaps, with fearful hatred-that hate which is only a hair's-breath from love, from… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am sorry I cannot say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love her with all my soul. Why, she is a child! She's a child now — a real child. Oh! you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For any one to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For anyone to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I worship her, Alyosha, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The poor little thing, she'd saved this student's letter as a treasure and had run to fetch this precious treasure of hers,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love. Don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. I am sorry… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing like it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen," she said taking my hand. "Tell me: you wouldn't have behaved like this, would you? You would not have abandoned a… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love it, regardless of logic as you say. It must be regardless of logic.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And do you know, I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love for humanity, it would… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If you ever fall in love with some one, God give you happiness with her! I won't wish anything for her, for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her--” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!” — 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
