... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
