How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself
Here was a small corner of the Greek archipelago; sky-blue, caressing waves, islands and rocks, a flowering strip of coastline, a magical panorama in the distance, an inviting sunset — you can’t descr...
He wants money for nothing, without waiting or working! We’ve grown used to having everything ready made, to walking on crutches, to having our food chewed for us. Then the great hour struck, and ever...
He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now. It struck him as strange and grotesque, that he should have stopped at...
He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had seen in his childhood or met somewhere once, whom...
He had not far to go; he knew indeed how many steps it was from the gate of his lodging house: exactly seven hundred and thirty. He had counted them once when he had been lost in dreams. At the time h...
For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.
For know, dear ones, that every one of us is undoubtedly responsible for all men- and everything on earth, not merely through the general sinfulness of creation, but each one personally for all mankin...
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. I believe really great men must experience great sadness in the world.
For any one to love a man, he must be hidden, for as soon as he shows his face, love is gone.
FYODOR MIKHAYLOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY was born in Moscow in 1821, the second of a physician’s seven children. When
Everything is habit with men, everything even in their social and political relations. Habit is the great motive-power.
Everything is dead, the dead are everywhere. There are only people, and all around them is silence—that's the earth.
Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
Every anonymous communication is deserving of contempt, just because it's not signed.
Erkel’s fate will be lightened. From the moment of his arrest he either maintained silence or did his best to pervert the truth. Not one word of repentance has been extracted from him so far. And yet...
Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window,
Don’t they understand that in order to acquire an opinion what is needed first of all is labor, one’s own labor, one’s own initiative and experience! Nothing can ever be acquired gratis. If
Don't be afraid of life. How good life is when one does somethings good and just.
Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?