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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 262a618 | 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." | crime humour | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| ff3df36 | I really feel obliged to go to this confounded luncheon. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 68f7a79 | Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5f34a18 | He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one; and he felt a craving for solitude, to be alone with his thoughts and his emotions, and to give himself up to them passively. He loathed the idea of trying to answer the questions that would rise up in his heart and mind. "I am not to blame for all this," he thought to himself, half unconsciously." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 98f6167 | He doesn't have so much learning...or any special education either; he's silent, and he grins at you silently--that's how he gets by. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7a24a2c | Oh, yes, we'll be in chains, and there will be no freedom, but then, in our great grief, we will arise once more into joy, without which it's not possible for man to live, or for God to be, for God gives joy, it's his prerogative, a great one...Lord, let man dissolve in prayer! How would I be there underground without God? Rakitin's lying: if God is driven from the earth, we'll meet him underground! It's impossible for a convict to be witho.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e8b35a3 | Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do better to worry about extending mans civil rights,' he told me today, 'or at least about not letting the price of beef go up; you'd render your love for mankind more simply and directly that way than with any philosophies.' But I came back at him: 'And without God,' I said, 'you'll hike up the price of beef yourself, .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 93cfdc3 | The Devil] I sincerely love people--oh, so much of what has been said about me is slander! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a41765b | The Devil] My best feelings, gratitude, for example, are formally forbidden solely because of my social position. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 28a9706 | the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1084792 | The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him do as he likes, it's quite the opposite with me. I am perhaps the only man in all of nature who loves the truth and sincerely desires good. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7e78f3a | The Devil] 'The question now,' my young thinker reflected, 'is whether or not it is possible for such a period ever to come. If it does come, then everything will be resolved and mankind will finally be settled. But since, in view of man's inveterate stupidity, it may not be settled for another thousand years, anyone who already knows the truth is permitted to settle things for himself, absolutely as he wishes, on the new principles. In thi.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 041206d | He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e251ea7 | Let me be sinful before everyone, but so that everyone will forgive me, and that is paradise. Am I not in paradise now? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 1851452 | Our own humble and meek ones, fasters and keepers of silence, will arise and go forth for a great deed. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fbee1f2 | in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 5adda49 | This is not it, this is not it! No, this is not it at all! | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| c88c515 | And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 289e186 | Christ, too, will forgive, if only you attain to forgiving yourself...Oh, no, no, do not believe that I have spoken a blasphemy: even if you do not attain to reconciliation with yourself and forgiveness of yourself, even then He will forgive you for your intention and for your great suffering. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f9a4f0f | lswf 'tryth qlylan qbl 'n 'l`n yhwdh hdh. fllh wHdh y`lm mdh ykmn fy '`mq qlwb lskr~. l'blh | faith | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| c292f89 | He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| dcecfbc | Most likely not, but he believed solely because he desired to believe and possibly he fully believed in his secret heart, even when he said: "I do not believe till I see"." | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ab3503f | it may happen that he sends a letter in verse, a mag-ni-fi-cent one, but which afterward he might wish to bring back with the tears of his whole life, for the sense of beauty is violated. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f973c97 | But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least someone to have pity on him. The church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment alone contains the truth... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7f30101 | the extraordinary craving for someone faithful and devoted, which unaccountably and suddenly came over him. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 90f6dcd | He would shoot his adversary in a duel, and go against a bear if need be, and fight off a robber in the forest--all as successfully and fearlessly as L---n, yet without any sense of enjoyment, but solely out of unpleasant necessity, listlessly, lazily, even with boredom. Anger, of course, constituted a progress over L---n, even over Lermontov. There was perhaps more anger in Nikolai Vsevolodovich than in those two together, but this anger w.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| fcea061 | It seems to me that if there were such a man, for example, as would seize a red-hot bar of iron and clutch it in his hand, with the purpose of measuring his strength of mind, and in the course of ten seconds would be overcoming the intolerable pain and would finally overcome it, this man, it seems to me, would endure something like what was experience now, in these ten seconds, by Nikolai Vsevolodovich. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| f45da56 | 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 Dostoyevsky | ||
| 29a6a57 | if i die what will become of them? ... What will become of them? ... Who would feed it and who would feed them all? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 42389ad | The marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage beast as man. So holy it is, so touching, so wise and so great a credit is to man. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 506fa1c | But I ask again, are there many like Thee? And could thou believe for one moment that men, too, could face such a temptation? Is the nature of men such, that they can reject miracles and at the great moments of their life, the moments of their deepest, most agonizing spiritual difficulties, cling only to the free verdict of their heart? ... and thou didst hope that man, following Thee, would cling to god and not ask for a miracle. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 749db7c | By showing him so much respect, Thou didst, as it were, cease to feel for him, for Thou didst ask far too much from Him--Thou who has loved him more than Thyself! Respecting him less, Thou wouldst have asked less of him. That would have been more like love, for his burden would have been lighter. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| a1ebfba | He saw that the Prisoner had listened carefully all the time, looking gently in his face--But evidently he did not want to reply. The old man longed for Him to say something, however bitter and terrible. But he suddenly approached the old man in silence and softly kissed him on the forehead. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 533dcd9 | He noticed that Ivan swayed as he walked and that his right shoulder was lower than his left. He had never noticed it before. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 64f1e1f | Aldatmaca,goz boyama ve el cabukluklarindan bulanik bir dunya yarattiginizi bile bile,kime neden gucendiginizi kestiremeden,butun bu aldatmacalar,karisikliklar arasinda iciniz sizlar da sizlar;bilmedikleriniz arttikca sizilariniz o olcude cogalir. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 538acc5 | He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the very next day, having suddenly broken with everything that had drawn him there, to make another sharp turn, entering upon a new, completely unknown path, again quite as lonely as before, having much hope, but not knowing for what, expecting much, too much, from life, but unable himself to define anything either in his expectat.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 32e0895 | I remember once I came into his room alone, when no one was with him. It was a bright evening, the sun was setting and lit up the whole room with its slanting rays. He beckoned when he saw me, I went over to him, he took me by the shoulders with both hands, looked tenderly, lovingly into my face; he did not say anything, he simply looked at me like that for about a minute: "Well," he said, "go now, play, live for me!" I walked out then and .. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 7483982 | But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you. | perspective ref-1-ix | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 61cb529 | However, do you know what? I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for forty years and never open their mouths, but the moment they get into the light of day and break out they may talk and talk and talk... | ref-1-x | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | |
| 4fe08d0 | Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and will never be fathomed... | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 465c5bf | I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; thou.. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| 4da1e90 | For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it still follow the Christian ideal. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| e371729 | I maintain that he is in his right mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | ||
| ef3d8aa | We are full of hatred, my girl, you and I! We are both full of hatred! As though we could forgive on another! Save him, and I'll worship you all my life. | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |