Crime and punishment Quote by Anonymous

“I'm no Dostoevsky - I just love to write”

— Ian Colquhoun

“Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky's characters don't generate phatos, but…

— Haruki Murakami

Every one of his characters has their own idea, their own thing they want to express. Dostoevsky just lets them do it.

— Svetlana Alexievich

“Dostoyevsky was the sum of all these contradictions which either paralyze a man or lead him to the heights.”

— Henry Miller

“It is a pity that there was no Dostoevsky living near this most interesting decadent [Jesus], I mean someone with an eye for the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am…

— Thomas B. Sawyer

You are not Dostoevsky,' said the woman... 'You never can tell...' he answered. 'Dostoevsky is dead,' the woman said, a bit uncertainly. 'I protest!'…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“Dostoevsky's nature was two-fold, like Spinoza's, and like that of nearly all those who try to awaken humanity from its torpor.”

— Lev Shestov

“A novel! Why do you say this won't liberate anyone? Where does any man go to be free, whether he is poor or rich…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.”

— Lev Shestov

“But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the…

— Lev Shestov