Mind Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“the black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed at his heart?”

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“He could not pass by children without his soul being shaken: such is the man.”

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“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.”

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“He had a distant sense that all this optimism was also morbid”

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“There, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick…

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“And even if one tried, it would be very hard to give a true account, for there were no thoughts in Ivan's…

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“Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest…

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“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his…

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“Recalling it afterwards, that moment stood out in his mind vividly, distinctly, for ever; he could not make out how he had…

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“He walked, looking about him angrily and distractedly. All his ideas now seemed to be circling round some single point, and he…

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“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and…

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“He assumed that there must be a connection between all that had happened yesterday and all that surrounded him now. At last,…

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“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do,…

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“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the…

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“the dark young man had been yawning and looking aimlessly out of the window, impatiently expecting the end of the journey. He…

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“Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late. But…

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“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people…

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“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was…

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“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away…

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“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled…

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“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky