“Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are… — 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
“I know about an actual murder over a watch, it's in all the newspapers now. If a writer had invented it, the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“It has suddenly occurred to me to write out word for word all that has happened to me during this last year,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“My writing is excellent. Perhaps I might call it a talent, I am quite the calligraphist. Let me write you something as… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Never before had she seen such writers. They were impossibly vain, but quite openly so, as if thereby fulfilling a duty. Some… — 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
“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
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