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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes

Russian Novelist, Writer November 11, 1821 – February 9, 1881

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Well, you may abuse me, be angry with me if you like," Porfiry Petrovitch began again, "but I can't resist. Allow me one little question (I know I am troubling you). There is just one little notion I want to express, simply that I may not forget it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human..."
Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even..."
What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky
...The men of those days...were absolutely not the same people that we are now; it was not the same race as now, in our age, really, it seems we are a different species...In those days they were men of one idea, but now we are more nervous, more developed, more sensitive; men capable of two or three ideas at once...Modern men are broader-minded - and I swear that this prevents their being so all-of-a-piece as they were in those days. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "The Russian soul is a dark place."
The Russian soul is a dark place. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "But what can a decent man speak of with most..."
But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
... to celebrate my first hour of freedom. It's been going on nearly six months, and all at once I've thrown it off. I could never have guessed, even yesterday how easy it would be to put an end to it if I wanted. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear..."
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." - Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they’d be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all! Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth,..."
There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Fyodor Dostoevsky
The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else. Fyodor Dostoevsky
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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who “every one” was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was... Fyodor Dostoevsky
I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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