“he did you; be reconciled with him truly. If you are repentant, it means that you love. And if you love, you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Somehow I cannot help being reminded of a frail, consumptive girl, at whom one sometimes looks with compassion, sometimes with sympathetic love,… — 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
“Just try to let yourself be carried away blindly by your feelings, without reflection, without a primary cause, suppressing consciousness even for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I love, I can only love the one I've left behind, stained with my blood when, ungrateful wretch that I am, I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But no, no, I am not to blame, Nastenka; I feel that, I know that, because my heart tells me I am… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Now, I did know a certain young lady of the 'romantic' generation of not so long ago who, after being mysteriously in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But, my God, how could I have thought it? How could I have been so blind, when everything had been taken by… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When you were talking to me here, I couldn’t sit still; when you cried here, when you tormented yourself because you were… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science. But I predict that even in that very… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And no one, no one should know what passes between husband and wife if they love one another. And whatever quarrels there… — 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
“Farther on, in another place, she wrote: ‘Do not consider my words as the sickly ecstasies of a diseased mind, but you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I came with horror to the conclusion that, if anything could dissipate my love to humanity, it would be ingratitude. In short,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If we're to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face--love… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If she'd been lame or a hunchback I'd have probably fallen in love with her even more... Yes, it was a sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love… — 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
