The formula 'Two and two make five' is not without its attractions. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Attractions Copy Share Image
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Happiness Copy Share Image
“Po ç'pune ke ti, mor zoteri, me çizmet e mia te shqyera dhe me berrylat e mi te grisur?” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Albanian Copy Share Image
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Character Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'm not so good as I seem to you. I've a bad heart; I will have my own way.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Adversity Copy Share Image
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Divine Copy Share Image
“...despair can hold the most intense sorts of pleasure when one is strongly conscious of the hopelessness of one's position...” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Despair Copy Share Image
Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Comedy 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
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Anguish Copy Share Image
In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Closeness Copy Share Image
Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Animal Copy Share Image
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky First sight Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Adversity Copy Share Image
“And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Awareness Copy Share Image
“And before you know it, the object disappears, arguments evaporate; no culprit is discovered, the offense ceases to be an offense and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Bounds Copy Share Image
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Barriers Copy Share Image
When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness,... then my heart… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“And what does it mean - ridiculous? wWhat does it matter how many times a man is or seems to be ridiculous?… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Advantage Copy Share Image
Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Children Copy Share Image
“One of them was a young fellow of about twenty-seven, not tall, with black curling hair, and small, grey, fiery eyes. His… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Ugliness Copy Share Image
“They did not strive to gain knowledge of life as we strive to understand it, because their lives were full. But their… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Life Copy Share Image
“I haven’t been here long, but, nevertheless, all the same, what I’ve managed to observe and verify here arouses the indignation of… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Honest people Copy Share Image
“There’s a book here in which I read about the trial of a Jew, who took a child of four years old… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Books Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, if, as the result of certain combinations, Kepler 's or Newton 's discoveries could become known to people in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
