Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“God Lord, only a moment of bliss, isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier, that it was horrible, but that it could not be… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moments of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“For goodness sake,' they'll cry, 'you cannot argue against it--two times two is four! Nature doesn't consult you; it doesn't give a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime? — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There are moments, you reach moments, when all of a sudden time stops and becomes eternal. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Young man, do not forget to pray. Each time you pray, if you do so sincerely, there will be the flash of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Every decent man of our time is and is bound to be a coward and a slave. This is his normal condition.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracle, and at the great moments of their life, the moment of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“While there is still time, I hasten to protect myself, and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“he was partly a young man of our time - that is, honest by nature, demanding the truth, seeking it and believing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“An anxiety with no object or purpose in the present, and in the future nothing but endless sacrifice, by means of which… — 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
