Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
