Quotes by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.”

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”

“I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: theres a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I dont treat left nostrils, its not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, theres a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.”

“I love mankind, he said, but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”

“For, having begun to build their Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet and spatter them with tears of blood from its eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup, and on it will be written: Mystery!”

“Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when were alive, were all the same once were dead. Just used-up shells.”