I sometimes think love consists precisely of the voluntary gift by the loved object of the right to tyrannize over it.
Fyodor DostoevskyDonโt let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
Fyodor DostoevskyNothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. โThe Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor DostoevskySo long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Fyodor DostoevskyI used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
Fyodor Dostoevsky... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person
Fyodor Dostoevsky