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Something was not dead within me, in the depths of my heart and conscience it would not die, and it showed itself in acute depression. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoevsky was the first to reveal to us this teeming multiplicity of emotions, this complexity of our spiritual universe. — Stefan Zweig

No, no, I'm a lowbrow. I read [Dostoevsky] more out of obligation than enjoyment. For enjoyment, for me, it's a beer and the football game. — Woody Allen

A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.
(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence. — Lev Shestov

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans. — Richard Brautigan

In none of Dostoevsky's novels is there any evolution of a unified spirit; in fact there is no evolution, no growth in general, — Mikhail Bakhtin

There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind. — Svetlana Alexievich

Beauty will save the world"
- The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville

But Dostoevsky does allow himself to ask just this very question: whether our reason has any right to judge between the possible and the impossible. — Lev Shestov

Dostoevsky,the only psychologist from whom I've anything to learn. — Friedrich Nietzsche