52 Quotes About Dostoevsky

The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? Well, behind our soul there's just more soul.

Beauty will save the world" - The Idiot

Она смеялась, но она и негодовала.- Спит! Вы спали! - вскричала она с презрительным удивлением.- Это вы! - пробормотал князь, еще не совсем опомнившись и с удивлениемузнавая ее: - ах, да! Это свидание... я здесь спал.- Видела.- Меня никто не будил кроме вас? Никого здесь кроме вас не было? Ядумал, здесь была... другая женщина.- Здесь была другая женщина?!Наконец он совсем очнулся.

Лучше быть несчастным, но знать, чем счастливым, но и жить... в дураках.

Leo en Dostoievski el pasaje que tanto se asemeja a ser desdichado

Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in 1849. Dostoevsky was accused of writing socialist propaganda. He was eventually pardoned and wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.

A vida só me é dada uma vez, e ela nunca mais voltará—eu não quero esperar a 'felicidade geral'. Eu mesmo quero viver; do contrário o melhor seria não existir.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.