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
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 my grave if filled, crumble a piece of bread on it, so that the sparrows will come down and cheer me up. Fyodor Dostoevsky
What’s the most offensive is not their lying — one can always forgive lying — lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth — what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying. . . 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
When he reached the Neva he stood still for a minute and turned a keen glance up the river into the smoky frozen thickness of the distance, which was suddenly flushed crimson with the last purple and blood -red glow of sunset, still smouldering on the misty horizon... . Night lay over the city, and the. Fyodor Dostoevsky
