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Fyodor Dostoevsky quotes
10 quotes from 1 of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s books on this site, book by book. Each quote is copied exactly from the book’s text in this site’s reader (the Project Gutenberg e-text named under each book) and links to its passage; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against that text. Quotes we could not find in a book we host are not listed.
Crime and Punishment
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth,” he added dreamily, not in the tone of the conversation.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter V
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
— Razumihin · Chapter I
“When reason fails, the devil helps!”
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VI
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity,” he said wildly and walked away to the window.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IV
The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VII
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter II
Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VI
Break what must be broken, once for all, that’s all, and take the suffering on oneself.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IV
From a hundred rabbits you can’t make a horse, a hundred suspicions don’t make a proof, as the English proverb says, but that’s only from the rational point of view--you can’t help being partial, for after all a lawyer is only human.
— Porfiry Petrovitch · Chapter II
Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most....
— Spoken by a character · Chapter I