Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor DostoevskyA man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
Fyodor DostoevskyHe does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
Fyodor DostoevskyFor if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.
Fyodor DostoevskyI don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!
Fyodor Dostoevsky