“I repeat, I repeat with emphasis: all "direct" persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“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
“I must make you one confession,” Ivan began. “I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's just one's neighbors,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Recalling it afterwards, that moment stood out in his mind vividly, distinctly, for ever; he could not make out how he had… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Already at the age of sixteen I wondered at them gloomily; I was amazed at the pettiness of their minds, the stupidity… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“that whoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them. Anyone who is greatly daring is right in their… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread—and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to… — 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
“It is a year and eight months since I last looked at these notes of mine. I do so now only because,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that if there were such a man, for example, as would seize a red-hot bar of iron and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Young man,” he went on, raising his head again, “in your face I seem to read some trouble of mind. When you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Farther on, in another place, she wrote: ‘Do not consider my words as the sickly ecstasies of a diseased mind, but you… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I maintain that he is in his right mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I used to dream like that, till i nearly went out of my mind ...” — 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
