Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin."

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for."

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

"Realism demands a certain heroism of those who practice it."

"I am afraid of nothing."

"The power of the past cannot be denied."

"We are all responsible for everyone and everything."

"There is something in humiliation which is particularly horrible."

"Cheap love of mankind is often simply the expression of despair."

"Only the infinite is needed to fill infinite voids."

"The winter destroys, but the spring restores."

"To dream of the future and to forget the past is the key to existence."

"Laughter is the prerogative of the living."

"A person is sometimes more generous when he has little than when he has much."

"The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons."

"Spiritual beauty is a superior force."

"I am far from being what the authorities believe me to be."

"Delight is the most obvious form of worship."

"Work in excess is the cause of man's sickness."

"Vanity is the secret source of all evil."

"Without women, civilization would never have been conceived."

"The wicked often believe that wickedness is better than anything."

"If there is no future life, then everything is possible."

"A man of genuine principle always seems like a drunkard."

"To speak rarely and seldom is a great art in conversation."

"Money is coined liberty."

"Being too good is dangerous; you may be used unfairly."

"Doubt is the mark of an intellectual."

"In every person, there is a spark of divine fire."

"The future state of humanity depends upon love."