“Another time, twice, in fact, I tried hard to be in love. I suffered, too, gentlemen, I assure you. In the depth… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We are assured that the world is becoming more and more united, is being formed into brotherly communion, by the shortening of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It's precisely their diseases that people pride themselves on, and I do-more perhaps than anybody else. Let's not argue; my objection was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable picture called 'Contemplation.' It shows a forest in winter and on a roadway through the forest, in absolute… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You know the direct, legitimate fruit of consciousness is inertia, that is, conscious sitting-with-the-hands-folded. I have referred to this already. I repeat,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I have noticed that in a cramped space one's thoughts too tend to be cramped.” — 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 swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness. For man’s everyday needs, it would… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“What right did this Nature have to bring me into the world as a result of some eternal law of hers? I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything… — 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
