Selected Stories by Gyodor Dostoyevsky Quotes

“These memories rose up of themselves, it was not often that of my own will I summoned them. It would begin from some point, some little thing, at times unnoticed, and then by degrees there would rise up a complete picture, some vivid and complete impression. I used to analyze these impressions, give new features to what had happened long ago, and best of all, I used to correct it, correct it continually, that was my great amusement.”
― Terry O'Brien, Selected Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Perhaps it was owing to the terrible misery that was growing in my soul through something which was of more consequence than anything else about me: that something was the conviction that had come upon me that nothing in the world mattered.”
― Terry O'Brien, Selected Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In old days I used to be miserable at seeming ridiculous. Not seeming, but being. I have always been ridiculous, and I have known it, perhaps, from the hour I was born. Perhaps from the time I was seven years old I knew I was ridiculous.”
― Terry O'Brien, Selected Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky