Quotes Tagged With :fyodor

I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace.....

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these....

A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and....

It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully....

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness - a real thorough-going illness.

Perhaps," you will add, grinning, "those who have never been slapped will also not understand" - thereby....

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist,....

The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely....

It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand.

Now life is given in exchange for pain and fear, and that's the basis of the whole deception. Now man....