Quotes –Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky



“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
– from The Brothers Karamazov

“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
-Crime and Punishment

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
-The Brothers Karamazov

“The world says: “You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed,
expand your needs and demand more.” This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is
isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
-The Brothers Karamazov

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
–The Brothers Karamazov


In addition to The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky is perhaps best known for his 1866 masterwork, Crime and Punishment, or subsequent
novels such as The Idiot published in 1869 and Demons in 1872. Many of his great works offer an unrivaled view of life in Tsarist Russia during the
mid-to-late 19th century, shaped by the environment in which he lived and worked, along with the social and political landscape of the era. via

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