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Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Make us your slaves, but feed us.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.
— D.H. Lawrence
I am crazy about mysterious things.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
— Richard Brautigan
The consciousness of life is higher than life.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we're both unhappy, and we both suffer.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
What you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.
— Lev Shestov
To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Dostoevsky, two thoughts are already two people, for there are no thoughts belonging to no one and every thought represents an entire person. This
— Mikhail Bakhtin
Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
— Janet Fitch
We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there is no God, then I am God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky