“I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who...prayed..with...unexpiated tears to 'dear,kind God!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I was once happy in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“People point less often to these monks, and even pass them over in silence, and how surprised they would be if I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Besides, they have put too high a price on harmony; we can’t afford to pay so much for admission. And therefore I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Connoisseurs of Russian beauty could have foretold with certainty that this fresh, still youthful beauty would lose its harmony by the age… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Tell me yourself directly, I challenge you – reply: imagine that you yourself are erecting the edifice of human fortune with the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I understand, of course, what an upheaval of the universe it will be when everything in heaven and earth blends in one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“God has had pity on me and is calling me to Himself. I know I am dying, but I feel joy and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I have a childlike conviction that the sufferings will be healed and smoothed over, that the whole offensive comedy of human contradiction… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Look, suppose that there was one among all those who desire nothing but material and filthy lucre, that one, at least, is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could… — 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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