“An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation" just like some Muslims… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people;… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“We degrade God too much, ascribing to him our ideas, in vexation at being unable to understand Him.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.” — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is, indeed, nothing more vexing than to be, for example, rich, of good family, of decent appearance, fairly well educated, not stupid, rather… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“When I am upstairs in my little garret I have only to remember and imagine the rustle of your dress, and I am ready… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best of men… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
