Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Complete Novels

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Why, it’s just such trifles that always ruin everything...”

that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.’

such blows are not a pain to me, but even an enjoyment. In fact I can’t get on without it... It’s better so.

a man ought not to be indebted to his wife, but that it is better for a wife to look upon her husband as her benefactor.

Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential. It was his conviction that this eclipse

reason fails, the devil helps!” he thought with a strange grin. This chance raised his spirits extraordinarily.

repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him — he loathed their

I want nothing. Do you hear? Nothing at all... no one’s services... no one’s sympathy. I am by myself... alone. Come, that’s enough. Leave me alone.” “Stay a

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!... How true it is! Good God, how true! Man is a vile

Life is real! haven’t I lived just now?

We prefer to live on other people’s ideas, it’s what we are used