I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
Fyodor DostoevskyA widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds.
Fyodor Dostoevsky- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.
Fyodor DostoevskyThey have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young. The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn't help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
Fyodor DostoevskyThere is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas.
Fyodor Dostoevsky