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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