“Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head—that is, these nerves are there in the brain ... (damn them!) there are sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“And the son bursting into his father's house, killing him, and at the same time not killing him, this is not even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are moments in the life of old liars who have been play-acting all their lives when they are so carried away… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Now is the time to throw a bottle at their heads," I thought to myself. I picked up the bottle... and filled… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“in courting a nihilist,2 Mr. Karmazinov most certainly had in mind his relations with the progressive young men of both capitals. The… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I predict that at the very moment when you see despairingly that, despite all your efforts, you have not only not come… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“People won't change, nobody can reform them, and it's not worth the effort! Yes, that's right! It's the law of their being.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen, nothing's better than being useful. Tell me how, at the present moment, I can be most of of use. I know… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In the first place I spent most of my time at home, reading. I tried to stifle all that was continually seething… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The last moment had come, the last drops had to be drained! So a man will sometimes go through half an hour… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where I was once happy in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is this demand for a universality of worship that has been the chief torment of each and every man individually and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I suddenly felt that it was all the same to me whether the world existed or whether there had never been anything… — 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
