“ And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let us never forget how good we all once felt here, all togeth… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whet… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly an… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime? Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Not long ago I was much amused by imagining—what if the fancy suddenly took me to kill some one, a dozen people at once, or to do some thing awful, something considered the most awful crime in the wor… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Je voulais vous exposer mon livre aussi succinctement que possible; mais je vois qu'il me faudra y joindre encore quantité d'explications verbales. Mon exposé exigera donc au moins dix soirées d'après… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man is still not what he should be. There will e a new man, happy and proud. Whoever doesn't care whet… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for every one seriously engaged in making money. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Merciful heavens! Human treatment may even render human a man in whom the image of God has long ago been tarnished. It is these 'unfortunates' that must be treated in the most human fashion. This is t… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most typical and characteristic aspects; these are the people who are usually… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owi… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
