Quotes Tagged With :fyodor

It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only....

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