“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I am glad that at such a moment my young man turned out to be not so reasonable; the time will come… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Just try to let yourself be carried away blindly by your feelings, without reflection, without a primary cause, suppressing consciousness even for… — 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
“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was… — 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
“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 sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair … Because in those moments I start to think that I will never… — 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
“With the anthill, the respectable race of ants began and with the anthill they will probably end, which does the greatest credit… — 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
“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
“Once he went into the mountains on a clear, sunny day, and wandered about for a long time with a tormenting thought… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“It is curious that this man who, even in my childhood, made such an impression upon me, who had such a crucial… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And it all flew away like a dream--even my passion, and yet it really was strong and true, but...where has it gone… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“And what if there are only spiders there, or something of that sort” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“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
“He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
“- 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
“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
“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
“There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share
