“I seem to be afraid of any SERIOUS book—afraid of permitting any SERIOUS preoccupation to break the spell of the passing moment.… — 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
“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
“And a real , undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, they certainly are poor — Oh, my God, how poor! At the same time, never a sound comes from their room.… — 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
“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Your hand is cold, mine is as hot as fire. How blind you are, Nastenka! ... Oh, how unbearable is the happy… — 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
“And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness… — 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
“The triumphant sense of security, of deliverance from overwhelming danger, that was what filled his whole soul that moment without thought for… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 most sumptuous thing in the room at that moment was naturally the sumptuously laid table, though, of course, even that… — 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
“I speak as a judge and I know that I was guilty. Even in the whirl in which I was caught up,… — 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
“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
“You say I haven’t any orginality. But mark this, dear Prince, there’s nothing more annoying for a man of our time and… — 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
