She was a diminutive, withered up old woman of sixty, with sharp malignant eyes and a sharp little nose. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. Fyodor Dostoevsky
In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped. But that is not all, that is not his worst defect; his worst defect is his perpetual moral obliquity... Fyodor Dostoevsky
She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls. Fyodor Dostoevsky
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep. Fyodor Dostoevsky