“‘Well, and what if I’m mistaken?’ he suddenly found himself exclaiming. ‘What if man - the whole human race in general, I mean - isn’t really a villain at all? If that’s true, it means that all the rest is just a load of superstition, just a lot of fears that have been put into people’s heads, and there are no limits, and that’s how it’s meant to be!…’”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (Submitted by northernpoint)
October 2010
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“I could get used to anything—that is, not really get used, but somehow voluntarily consent to endure it. But I had a way out that reconciled everything which was—to escape into “everything beautiful and lofty,” in dreams, of course. I dreamed terribly, I would dream for three months at a time, shrinking into my corner.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via alltomorrowspardis)
“‘Come, let us go and try it- why dream about it?’… But in the last resort he simply ceased to believe in himself, and doggedly, slavishly sought arguments in all directions, fumbling for them as though someone were forcing and drawing him to it.”
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Dostoyevsky Crime and Punishment
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“We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via kafrininterman)
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“It was an agonizing torment, a never-ending unbearable humiliation, caused by the suspicion, constantly growing into clear-cut certainty, that compared to them I was a fly, a nasty obscene fly - cleverer, better educated, nobler than any of them, that goes without saying - but a fly, always getting out of everybody’s way, humiliated and slighted by everybody.”
—Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. (via streebgreeblings)
To make sauce from a hare, you need a hare; to have belief in God, you need a God.
- From Demons (The Possessed)
“‘Next you’ll be finding pleasure in a toothache!’ you will exclaim, laughing.
‘And why not? There is also pleasure in a toothache,’ I will answer.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes From Underground)
‘And why not? There is also pleasure in a toothache,’ I will answer.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes From Underground)
“…she’s had seven devils inside her ever since she was born. You drive them out and I’ll get a crutch ready for you…”
—A Nasty Story, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via memora-vivere)
“At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins, uncertain whether to combat them by force or by human love. Always decide, “I will combat it with human love.” If you make up your mind about that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“When there is love, you can live even without happiness”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground (via shebringstrouble)
