Reads tagged with “Fyodor Dostoyevsky”
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”
Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
“Treasure this ecstasy, however absurd people may think it.”
Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.”
Dostoyevsky on Integrity, Success, and the Ultimate Goal of Creative Work
“The artist … must consecrate all his toil to the holy spirit of art — such toil is holy, chaste, and demands single-heartedness.”
Anna Dostoyevskaya on the Secret to a Happy Marriage: Wisdom from One of History’s Truest and Most Beautiful Loves
How to nurture a love that “would stand as a firm wall,” that “won’t let you fall, and it gives warmth.”
From the Labor Camp to the Literary Canon: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer
“I have nothing, except for certain, and perhaps very minor, literary abilities.”
Dostoyevsky in Love
“I love her happiness more than my own.”
Polish Poet and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska on Great Love
“Great love is never justified. It’s like the little tree that springs up in some inexplicable fashion on the side of a cliff: where are its roots, what does it feed on, what miracle produces those green leaves?”
Dostoyevsky on the Heart vs. the Mind and How We Come to Know Truth
“Nature, the soul, love, and God, one recognizes through the heart, and not through the reason… Reason is a tool, a machine, which is driven by the spiritual fire.”
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