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The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Something was not dead within me, in the depths of my heart and conscience it would not die, and it showed itself in acute depression.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is in ourselves and not in the external.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, don't lie to yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yes, that's right ... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every man needs a place to go to.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Money is coined liberty.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Make us your slaves, but feed us.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Homeopathic doses are perhaps the strongest.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself ...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
— 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
Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
When ... in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The degree of a nation's civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell.(in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy) — Joseph Brodsky
He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He who desires to see the living God face-to-face should not seek him in the empty, firmament of his mind, but in human love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus ...
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
You simply can't imagine what men will say!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's hero is not an objectified image but an autonomous discourse, pure voice; we do not see him, we hear him;
— Mikhail Bakhtin
Taking a new step ... is what people fear most.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, do not lie to yourself.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The consciousness of life is higher than life.
— 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
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
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
He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.
— Richard Brautigan
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
In none of Dostoevsky's novels is there any evolution of a unified spirit; in fact there is no evolution, no growth in general,
— Mikhail Bakhtin
Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss.
— Albert Einstein
There is something spiteful and yet open-hearted about you
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering - that is a fact.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am not a scoundrel, but I'm broadminded.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Trifles, trifles are what matter!
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
