“Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to decieve themselves.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Pine trees are not like human beings, they go for a long time without altering...” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“She has known all the time that I cared for her--though I never said a word of my love to her--” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.” — 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
“And try letting yourself be carried away by your feelings, blindly, without reflection, without a primary cause, repelling consciousness at least for… — 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
“But gentlemen, what sort of free choice will there be when it comes down to tables and arithmetic, when all that’s left… — 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
“To confess one's guilt and one's original sin is little, very little; one must wean oneself away from them completely. And that… — 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
“I passed by your lodging just now, and thought: 'I'll go in to him; he is kinder than any of them, and… — 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
“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not… — 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
“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
“I worship her, Alyosha, worship her. Only she doesn't see it. No, she still thinks I don't love her enough. And she… — 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
“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 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
“why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Not one people has ever yet organised itself according to the principles of science and reason. Never has there been a single… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Oh, I remember, I remember all those moments! And I want to add, too, that when such young creatures, such sweet young… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“That there was, indeed, beauty and harmony in those abnormal moments, that they really contained the highest synthesis of life, he could… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“For the time being you, too, are toying, out of despair, with your magazine articles and drawing-room discussions without believing in your… — 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
“It is that instinctive need of having a worship in common that is the chief suffering of every man, the chief concern… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have… — 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
![“[The Devil] "This legend is about paradise. There was, they say, a certain thinker and philospher here on your earth, who 'rejected all--laws, conscience faith, and, above all, the future life. He died and thought he'd go straight into darkness and death, but no--there was the future life before…” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/311/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_future-life_the-devil-this-legend-is-about-paradise_1737212.jpg)
![“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 God?” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/09b/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_ethics_if-god-doesn-t-exist-man-is-the-chief-of_16023.jpg)
