Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: strength
Do you think, you who sold it, that this bottom of yours has been sweet to me? Affliction, I sought affliction at the bottom of it, tears and affliction, and I found them, I tasted them.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: alchohol
Hm ... yes ... a man holds the fate of the world in his two hands, and yet, simply because he is afraid, he just lets things drift -- that is a truism ... I wonder what men are most afraid of ...
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: fear
I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: alcohol
It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if he really imagined he could think the same thoughts now as then, and be interested in the same ideas and images as had interested him once ... not long ago.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: change
It is almost better to tell your own lies than somebody else's truth; in the first case you are a man, in the second you are no better than a parrot!
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: truth
Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: marriage
Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: russian-literature
fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don't be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again. What bank? How can I tell? I only believe that you have long life before you. I know that you take all my words now for a set speech prepared beforehand, but maybe you will remember them after. They may be of use some time.
Fyodor DostoevskyFriendship is merely a glorified expression. In reality it is nothing but a reciprocal outpouring of slops.
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: russian-literature
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