. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .
Fyodor DostoevskyStichwörter: books book-lover
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Fyodor DostoevskySuppose, gentleman, that man is not stupid.
Fyodor DostoevskyWith old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath.
Fyodor DostoevskyMan is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
Fyodor DostoevskyThough these young men unhappily fail to
understand that the sacrifice of life is, in many cases, the easiest of
all sacrifices, and that to sacrifice, for instance, five or six years of
their seething youth to hard and tedious study, if only to multiply
tenfold their powers of serving the truth and the cause they have set
before them as their goal--such a sacrifice is utterly beyond the strength
of many of them.
Stichwörter: strength
There shall be time no more.
Fyodor DostoevskyThe second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
Fyodor DostoevskyThe prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.
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