Everyone discards everything that would previously be common in thoughts and feelings, and begins with his own thoughts and feelings. Everyone wants to start over. Former ties are broken without regret, and everyone acts on his own.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Looking for a general formula, we want to turn a person into an erased coin.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Simplicity harms the supporters of simplicity themselves. Simplicity does not change, simplicity is "straightforward" and overly arrogant. Simplicity is the enemy of analysis.... In your simplicity, you begin not to understand the subject, not even to see it at all. Your view from simplicity itself and involuntarily turns into fantasy.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Ideas spread according to laws that are difficult for us to grasp; ideas are contagious. Did you know that in the general mood of life, a different idea, a different concern or longing, accessible only to a highly educated and developed mind, can suddenly be transmitted to a rude, illiterate being who has never thought of anything. And suddenly infect his soul with its influence.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Writers in their novels and stories mostly try to take types that are very rarely found in reality in their entirety and which, at the same time, are more real than reality itself.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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My pen drives a spring straight from my soul.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Dostoevsky's wife once put him to a rather cruel test. She slipped him an anonymous letter informing him of his wife's infidelity. She wrote the letter herself in an altered handwriting.
In the end, she was barely able to pacify her agitated husband.

#IvanLapshin 
#FyodorDostoyevsky #books #history

The audience here is boring, there are more Germans, our Russians are quite a lot, the men are more or less, but the Russian ladies are awful. They squeak, squeal, laugh, cheeky and cowardly at the same time. You can already tell from the laughter that she is laughing not for herself, but to get attention.

#FyodorDostoyevsky About the Resort City Bad Ems; 1875

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The theme of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's satires is a policeman hiding somewhere, who overhears the writer and denounces him.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Yesterday they served fried chicken. I started to eat it, and you can imagine the trick. They took the chicken and removed all the meat from it, all the way down to the atom, so that the bare bones were sort of polished off, and then everything was covered with perfectly roasted chicken skin, so that it seemed like a whole chicken on top.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Once a drunken man knocked Dostoevsky off his feet with a strong blow to the back of the head. The writer asked not to bring the perpetrator to justice. When he was nevertheless convicted, Dostoevsky paid a fine for him.

#IvanLapshin 
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No matter how much I re-read Anna Karenina, each time I cannot believe that his heroine will commit suicide, and each time I feel equally sorry for her. But the fate of Raskolnikov, Nastasya Filippovna and many other characters in Dostoevsky's novels does not cause any participation in me - for they have no fate.

#PyotrBitsilli
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The "hero" of Dostoevsky's works comes close to the "hero" of an adventure novel in that, since he does not "develop", does not evolve, nothing happens to him, but everything happens by itself.

#MikhailBakhtin
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The "hero" of Dostoevsky's works comes close to the "hero" of an adventure novel in that, since he does not "develop", does not evolve, nothing happens to him, but everything happens by itself.

#Mikhail Bakhtin
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Dostoevsky, in order to be relevant to the 20th century, retreated deeply back to the 18th century of Russia. Now it is indisputable that Nikolai Karamzin played a significant role in shaping Dostoevsky's work.

#AlfredBem
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At the present time, no one will find it strange to talk about Dostoevsky's aesthetics, but a quarter of a century ago it would have aroused bewilderment among many writers. The view was widespread that Dostoevsky was an artist who completely neglected the art form at the expense of the ideological content. And therefore there is nothing to expect from him to delve into the problems of aesthetics.

#IvanLapshin 1923 
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At the present time, no one will find it strange to talk about Dostoevsky's aesthetics, but a quarter of a century ago it would have aroused bewilderment among many writers. The view was widespread that Dostoevsky was an artist who completely neglected the art form at the expense of the ideological content. And therefore there is nothing to expect from him to delve into the problems of aesthetics.

#IvanLapshin
#FyodorDostoyevsky #books #quote #literature

There is no more constant and painful concern for a person - than to be free and find someone to serve as soon as possible.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Give a weak person freedom - he will tie her up, bring her back. Freedom is not good for a foolish heart.

#FyodorDostoyevsky 
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Minna, Clara, Marianne*, etc. have become much more beautiful, but very expensive. The other day Ivan Turgenev and Vissarion Belinsky scolded me strongly for my disorderly life.
#FyodorDostoyevsky 1846
*Popular names of prostitutes in Russia in the 19th century.

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