More from Fyodor Dostoevsky

  1. I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyon…
  2. Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't it true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded, wit…
  3. I consider you the most honest and truthful of men, more honest and truthful than anyone; and if they say that your mind . . . that is, tha…
  4. Who consciously throws himself into the water or onto the knife?
  5. Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at t…
  6. The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
  7. It was evident that he revived by fits and starts. He would suddenly come to himself from actual delirium for a few minutes; he would remem…
  8. Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

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