53 Quotes About Dostoyevsky
- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand.
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- Author Fiodor Dostojewski
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Głupiec z sercem i bez rozumu jest tak samo nieszczęśliwy, jak głupiec z rozumem i bez serca.
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- Author Roy Blount Jr.
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When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Put The Idiot in your lap or over your face, and you know where you are going to be for the afternoon.
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- Author Andrew D. Kaufman
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Standing quietly in the shade of the literary giant Dostoyevsky, his wife Anna is often erased from the historical record.
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- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
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- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls
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- Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most… .
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- Author Andrew D. Kaufman
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Anna Dostoyevskaya found a purpose to guide her life: to honor her own experiences and potential while celebrating the work of Dostoyevsky, the artist, the man, she loved.
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- Author Andrew D. Kaufman
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Dostoyevsky’s widow insisted that her husband was to literature what the physicist-founder of the X-ray was to the human body: the inventor of a wholly new means of peering inside the human soul.
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