Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on May 12, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Before going to sleep, he threw himself down on his knees and prayed for a long time. In his ardent prayer, he did not ask God to explain his confusion to him, but only thirsted for joyful tenderness, the same tenderness that always visited his soul after praising and glorifying God, of which his prayer before going to sleep usually consisted.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 158
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on March 2, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Had it not been his mind, he might have turned out to be much more intelligent.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 701
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on February 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I ask myself: “What is hell?” And I answer thus: “The suffering of being no longer able to love.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 322
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on February 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Not for nothing are we a poet, not for nothing have we been burning our life like a candle at both ends.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 716
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on February 8, 2008| Leave a Comment »
You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory, especially a memory from childhood, from the parental home. You hear a lot said about your education, yet some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 774
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on February 2, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 57
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on January 28, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 238
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on October 28, 2007| Leave a Comment »
Brothers, love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 319
Posted in Fyodor Dostoevsky on October 3, 2007| Leave a Comment »
I’m not lying, it’s all true; unfortunately, the truth is hardly ever witty.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1990), 640
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