Russian literature Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Download Open image ““both touching and somehow repulsive.”” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Russian literature
“Touching wasn't orchestrated or choreographed to fulfill the requirements of foreplay. It was an event all its own. And it was erotically chaste, tender,… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t touched or been touched in years. I didn’t know how to anymore. Allergic to human affection. Repulsed by the degrading feeling of… — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
“I think, if you touch me, your hand might fall off or something. Worse things have happened to people who have touched me.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.” — Eleanor Cameron Copy Share Image
“Touch was funny like that. How one movement could choke you and kill you, but another meant nothing more than a caress and an… — Brigid Kemmerer 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
“I love a friendly chat and a friendly glass of wine during the evening - the time they call, for some accountable reason, 'between… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“.. and these days I've come to prefer the more steady Bordeaux. I am no longer up to champagne from Ay: it's like a… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Russia is a place of great culture. If you've read Tolstoy's "War and Peace", Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov...the culture of the great Russian literature is… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
“Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (November 11 [O.S. October 30] 1821 – February 9 [O.S. January 28] 1881) is considered one of two greatest prose writers… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I’m five minutes late to Russian literature, where Mrs. Mahone and her wig assign us a ten-page paper on The Brothers Karamazov.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“at one time, a freethinker was a man who had been brought up in the conceptions of religion, law and morality, who reached freethought… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
