Quotes about Dostoevsky

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The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill — Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names r — Stephen Fry, The Library Book
A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The mysterious Russian soul... Everyone wants to understand it. They read Dostoevsky: what's behind that soul of theirs? — Svetlana Alexievich, Czasy secondhand. Koniec czerwonego człowieka
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in thei — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
So against the grain I serve to produce events and do what’s irrational because I am commanded to. For all their indispu — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthfu — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Adolescent
The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve eve — R.F. Georgy, Notes from the Cafe
He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young — Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay
Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem. — R.F. Georgy, Notes from the Cafe
We have an infinite supply of information and yet we cannot read. — R.F. Georgy
And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russi — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species, but — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths
The Idiot. I have read it once, and find that I don't remember the events of the book very well--or even all the princip — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But what about me? I suffer, but still, I don’t live. I am x in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in lif — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
St. Augustine hated the Stoics, Dostoevsky hated the Russian Liberals. At first sight this seems a quite inexplicable pe — Lev Shestov, In Job's Balances: On the Sources of the Eternal Truths