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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A fool is always pleased with what he says, and, besides, he always says more than he needs to.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
People who can speak well, speak briefly.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There shall be time no more.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The game's not worth the candle
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Is it because in my soul I'm just as much a murderer? he asked himself. Something remote, but burning, stung his soul.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It's magnificent, Alyosha, this science! A new man's arising-that I understand ... And yet I am sorry to lose God!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
And indeed, here I am posing an idle question of my own now: which is better - cheap happiness or sublime suffering?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Let us become servants in order to be leaders.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You are very beautiful, Aglaya Ivanovna, so beautiful that one is afraid to look at you.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The world will be saved by beauty.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hurrah for Karamazov!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Full freedom will come only when it makes no difference whether to live or not to live. That's the goal for everyone.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In place of dialectics, life had arrived.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Siberia taught Dostoyevsky much that would be fictionalized in Demons, including criminal speech, the criminal mind and the ways of officialdom.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Until one has indeed become the brother of all, there will be no brotherhood.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
for it is precisely the humanity, affability, and brotherly compassion of a doctor which prove the most efficacious remedies for his patients.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One lajdak doesn't make a Poland. Keep quiet, pretty boy, eat your candy.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How can you live, with such a hell in your heart and in your head?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tendentious point of view;
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
somehow touching yet repulsive
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everything is dead, the dead are everywhere. There are only people, and all around them is silence - that's the earth.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To a woman all reformation, all salvation from any sort of ruin, and all moral renewal is included in love and can only show itself in that form.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We've got facts, they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Beauty will save the world
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He never did anything to me it's true, but I once played a most shameless nasty trick on him, and the moment I did it, I immediately hated him for it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Never trust a woman's tears, Alexey Fyodorovitch.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fierce and solitary he awaited death, mistrustful and hostile to all
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
— Ernest Hemingway,
I am one, and they are all.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we supposed. And we ourselves are, too.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky dies in St Petersburg (28 January). Buried
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The formula 'two and two make five' is not without its attractions.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Still, if there was anything, it came about by no one else's power save the divine will. Everything is from God.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You needn't be afraid of life! Life is so good when you do something that is good and just.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man is a creature who gets used to everything, and that, I think, is the best definition of him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
His respect for his spouse and occasional fear of her were so great that it could even be said that he loved her.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A man is no example for a woman. It's a different thing.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But, as so often happens, crimes committed with extraordinary boldness are more likely to succeed than any others.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal).
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We shall have thousands of Shatovs to deal with
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
— William Faulkner
unbounded vanity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
People are more persuaded than ever that they have perfect freedom, yet they have brought their freedom to us and laid it humbly at our feet.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N. - once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Why did I accept death? But I will ask,what use was life to me after that revolver had been raised against me by the being I adored? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Well, set the monster free ... he's begun his hymn, because he finds it all so easy ... but I'd give a quadrillion quadrillion for two seconds of joy.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
there was almost no smell from the corpse.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When reason fails, the devil helps! he thought with a strange grin. This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hm ... yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Beautiful and sublime.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
— Uzo Aduba
Faulty intuitions often get us into trouble.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
he will certainly tell some lie to save appearances.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The most disgusting thing is that you're always sad about something!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
They understood nothing, none of life's realities, and, I swear to you, this was what made me most indignant.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Well, then, eliminate the people, curtail them, force them to be silent. Because the European Enlightenment is more important than people.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I am scared of one thing in my life, to be unworthy of my sufferings.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... gloom never forsakes the English...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Oh, Karamazov, I am deeply unhappy.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
he worked with great intensity without sparing himself, & he was respected for this, but no one liked him" --crime & punishment
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He doesn't have so much learning ... or any special education either; he's silent, and he grins at you silentlythat's how he gets by. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Power is given only to the one who dares to reach down and take it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Raskolnikov had been listening intently, but with a sense of unhealthy discomfort.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No one is your judge now,' Mavriky Nikolayevich stated firmly, 'may God forgive you; I'm less worthy than anyone of being your judge!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We have facts,' they say. But facts are not everything - at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To love one's neighbor and not to despise him is impossible.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and cannot even move one's arms.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One can fall in love and still hate.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Good Lord, only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everyone thinks of himself, and he lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Well, it's not a disaster, is it? Man, too, comes to his end, and here we are making a fuss about a clay pot!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Who fears the wolf should never enter the forest. What?
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Being in love doesn't mean loving.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky