To love one's neighbor and not to despise him is impossible.
To insects--sensual lust.
Through children the soul is healed…
They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?
The most monstrous monster is the monster with noble feelings
The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
The enjoyment of the sufferer finds expression in those moans; if he did not feel enjoyment in them he would not moan. It
The door from the next room suddenly opened with a timid, quiet creak, as if thus announcing the entrance of a very insignificant person...
That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
Suffering, too, is a good thing. Suffer!
Stepan Trofimovich managed to touch the deepest strings in his friend's heart and to call forth in him the first, still uncertain sensation of that age-old, sacred anguish which the chosen soul, havin...
Reason is the slave of passion.
Raskolnikov at that moment felt and knew once for all that Sonia was with him for ever and would follow him to the ends of the earth, wherever fate might take him.
Quick understanding is only a sign of the banality of what is understood.
One life passed, another began, then that passed and a third began, and there's still no end. All the ends are cut off as if with a pair of scissors.
One day is enough for a man to know all happiness. My dear ones, why do we quarrel, try to outshine each other and keep grudges against each other? Let's go straight into the garden, walk and play the...
Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!
Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anyth...
Nothing will ever be gained for nothing. If we labour, we shall have our own opinion as well.