Raskolnikov Quote by David Zane Mairowitz

“The thing she realised in that moment, that fraction of waiting, was lost. Nothing could bring the thing back, no words could make the…

— H.D

“Issie realised at that moment how well they understood each other, her and Alfie, even though their lives were so different”

— Stacy Gregg

It is not restful, it is not possible to talk wholeheartedly to more than one person at a time. You can't really talk with…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

— Sallust

“The iPhone 2 led to the 3, but I didn’t get the 4 or 5 because I’m holding out for the 7, which, I’ve…

— David Sedaris

I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

— Anonymous

A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us…

— Boris Pasternak

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

— Anonymous

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant…

— Michael Cunningham

Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers…

— Cynthia Ozick

“Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky