Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 November 1821
CityMoscow, Russia
two giving four
I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but to give everything its due, two and two make five is also a very fine thing.
two four needs
you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will
men cards four
But gamblers know how a man can sit for almost twenty-four hours at cards, without looking to right, or to left.
two gentleman four
..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.
two four littles
I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.
men two four
Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?
mad flying devil
I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.
squares years space
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.
love men suffering
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
hands fire cold
Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!
beautiful stupid men
Perhaps a normal man is supposed to be stupid-how do we know? Perhaps it's even very beautiful.
mistake causes ruined
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
prayer giving feelings
Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
food feet libertarian
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.