“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ 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
“ Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream ab… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ And who knows (one cannot vouch for it), perhaps the whole goal mankind strives for on earth consists just in this ceaselessness of the process of achievement alone, that is to say, in life itself, an… Fyodor Dostoyevsky
