“We are not in a mincing lady's boudoir; we are, as it were, two abstract beings in a balloon, who have met… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Enough of this, dearest one. I ought not to have spoken of it, but I lost my temper. Still, it is pleasant… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!” — 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
“I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Truly,' I answered him, 'all things are good and fair, because all is truth. Look,' said I, 'at the horse, that great… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“You have no tenderness, nothing but truth, and so you judge unjustly.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My friend, I've been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth. I never spoke for the truth, but… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one means of salvation, then take yourself and make yourself responsible for all men's sins, that is the truth,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Lying is a privilege exclusive to humans among all other beings. It’s by lying that one arrives at the truth! I tell… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[Alyosha] was to some extent a youth of our last epoch — that is, honest in nature, desiring the truth, seeking for… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, now, life, life! I lifted up my hands and called upon eternal truth, not with words, but with tears; ecstasy, immeasurable… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But I tell you what it is; an honest and sensitive man is open; and a business man 'listens and goes on… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Yes, till the secret is revealed, there are two sorts of truth for me--one, their truth, yonder, which I know nothing about… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“... you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“though all my friends there are drunk, yet they are all honest, and though we do talk a lot of trash, and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he is ready to distort the truth, ready to hear nor… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The old grief of the great mystery of human life gradually passes into a quiet, tender joy; in place of the boiling… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, how awful is truth on earth! That exquisite creature, that gentle spirit, that heaven - she was a tyrant, she was… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Listen!” Pulcheria Alexandrovna interrupted timidly, but it only added fuel to the flames. “What do you think?” shouted Razumihin, louder than ever,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“[The Devil] 'The question now,' my young thinker reflected, 'is whether or not it is possible for such a period ever to… — 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
