Fyodor Dostoevsky · Skopia

Quotes

14

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 8.1

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1880

★ 7.8

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment · 1866

★ 7.3

Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The House of the Dead · 1860

★ 6.4

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Books

5

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1880★ 9.7

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1866★ 9.6

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1864★ 8.6

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1869★ 8.1

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1872★ 7.3