To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
... you are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything ... — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is true I am a complete stranger to these people, but they are not strangers to me.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image