“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
“But I ask again, are there many like Thee? And could thou believe for one moment that men, too, could face such… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“To begin with, at home I spent most of my time reading. I wanted to stifle all that was continuously boiling up… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He walked, looking about him angrily and distractedly. All his ideas now seemed to be circling round some single point, and he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Till the last moment they dress a man up in peacock's feathers, till the last moment they hope for the good and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled… — 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
“No, sir! If, for example, in earlier times it was said to me: “Love your neighbour” and I acted on it, what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“This was not because he was cowardly and abject, quite the contrary; but for some time past he had been in an… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon;… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“At seven o’clock Ivan got into the train and set off to Moscow. ‘Away with the past. I’ve done with the old… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen, then: we are not with you, but with him, that is our secret! For a long time now - eight centuries… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But I repeat for the hundredth time, there is one case, one only, when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But Stepan Trofimovitch’s activity ceased almost at the moment it began, owing, so to say, to a “vortex of combined circumstances.” And… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are seconds, they come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But the foolish children will have to learn some day that, rebels though they be and riotous from nature, they are too… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are moments when people love crime," Alyosha said pensively. "Yes, yes! You've spoken my own thought, they love it, they all… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted--you will find… — 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
“Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be… — 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
