“I am very sad, and if only it were possible to resurrect him, I would give everything in the whole world.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“For the whole world to vanish into thin air, or for me not to drink my tea? I say, let the world… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, Karamazov, I am profoundly unhappy. I sometimes fancy all sorts of things, that every one is laughing at me, the whole… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The plague spread and moved on. In the whole world only a few people were able to save themselves: the pure and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“With love everything is bought, everything is saved. If even I, a sinful man, just like you, was moved to tenderness and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age.… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Oh, I know, I know that heart, that wild but grateful heart, gentlemen of the jury! It will bow before your mercy;… — 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
“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“But I've still better things about children. I've collected a great, great deal about Russian children, Alyosha. There was a little girl… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Love one another, fathers," the elder taught (as far as Alyosha could recall afterwards). "Love God's people. For we are not holier… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He was in the hospital from the middle of Lent till after Easter. When he was better, he remembered the dreams he… — 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