“Father,' he asked, 'are rich people stronger than anyone else on earth?' 'Yes Ilusha,' I said, 'there are no people on earth… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade?… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For it will come to pass that even the most corrupt of our rich men will finally be ashamed of his riches… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We’ve grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No, it was not the money that I valued—what I wanted was to make all this mob of Heintzes, hotel proprietors, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What answer had your lecturer in Moscow to make to the question why he was forging notes? 'Everybody is getting rich one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What do you consider to be the greatest social virtue? In private conversation Evstafi Ivanovitch once told me that the greatest social… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was the devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!” he repeated with… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Well, listen then. On the other side, fresh young lives thrown away for want of help and by thousands, on every side!… — 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
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