Dostoyevsky Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.
— Andrea Bocelli
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
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Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only…
— Edwin Muir
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Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
— Bob Dylan
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If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
— Uzo Aduba
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The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.
— William Lane Craig
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Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.
— Jenna Jameson
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of…
— John Cowper Powys
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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer…
— Wendy Lesser
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I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
— Ernest Hemingway
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I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
— Norman MacCaig
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It is regrettable that a Dostoyevsky did not live near this most interesting of all decadents (Jesus Christ) - I mean someone who would have…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.
— Larry McMurtry
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles,…
— Jean Rhys
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Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I…
— Eddie Izzard
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
— William P. Young
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Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion…
— Dan Brown
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It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of…
— James A. Baldwin
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