What, the priest? I don't want him. You haven't got a rouble to spare. I have no sins. God must forgive me without that. He knows how I have suffered.... And if He won't forgive me, I don't care! Fyodor Dostoevsky
When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in such a position. Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete. Fyodor Dostoevsky
WHEN he was half-way there, the keen dry wind that had been blowing early that morning rose again, and a fine dry snow began falling thickly. It did not lie on the ground, but was whirled about by the wind, and soon there was a regular snowstorm. Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you were talking to me here, I couldn’t sit still; when you cried here, when you tormented yourself because you were jilted, because your love was slighted and disregarded, I felt that in my heart there was so much love for you. Fyodor Dostoevsky
What’s more, any memoirs by eyewitnesses are a treasure, no matter who the eyewitness happens to be. Don’t you think so? Fyodor Dostoevsky
What’s going on there I don’t understand and have never understood: either she loves you beyond all bounds, or… if she loves you, then why does she want to get you married to someone else? She says: I want to see him happy – that means she loves you. Fyodor Dostoevsky
