Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I read about a man who'd been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live an ocean somewhere high up on a rock . . . with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms — and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity — that it would be better to live like that than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live!
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Through error you come to truth. I am a man because I err. You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes, likely 114.
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky