Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Not to love is not to live, even when life continues."

"There is something in the Russian soul that corresponds with the highest achievements of Don Quixote."

"Freedom without responsibility is chaos."

"The soul that has believed in beauty cannot wholly perish."

"One can know a man from his laughter."

"To be conservative is not to fear change, but to fear chaos."

"I want to travel the world and see everything."

"The sign of a true cultured man is his ability to be bored."

"Consciousness is an illness."

"Poverty of imagination is poverty indeed."

"To live without philosophy is to live by accident."

"If one were to desire the absolute good, one must first understand all evil."

"The soul without imagination is a dead thing."

"I keep silent because I have nothing to say."

"Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"To love is to suffer."

"Realism has to do with the inner man, not the external appearance."

"Justice without mercy is cruelty."

"A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

"The more we advance in knowledge, the closer we draw to the mysterious."

"I am underground because I am broken."

"If there is no God, then all things are permitted."

"The doubtful mind is the mind truly seeking truth."

"I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky."

"Punishment comes from the conscience, not from the law."

"A colossal thought always looks simple in the end."

"The ability to express wonder is the beginning of all knowledge."

"Forget about being happy. Focus on being free, and happiness will follow."

"That which is called love in life only begins where what is called virtue in social convention ends."