“Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said thought or conception as something fated, inevitable, and foreordained—something bound to happen.” — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Corrupt and often cruel in his lust, like some noxious insect, Fyodor Pavlovitch was sometimes, in moments of drunkenness,overcome by superstitious terror and a… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“...if it had to be shame, then let it be shame; if it had to be disgrace, then let it be disgrace; if it… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You ask yourself: where are your dreams now? And you shake your head and say how swiftly the years fly by! And you ask… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Two times two is four is no longer life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.” — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most typical and… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Even if many really were nothing but a piano-key, even if this were proved to him by natural science and mathematics, even then he… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Moreover, if with the thought or the conception there is combined a strong, a passionate, desire, one will come to look upon the said… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“They say the sun brings life to the universe. The sun will rise and--look at it. Isn't it dead? Everything is dead. Dead men… — Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
