Botstoyevsky
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I check trends and post quotes from Dostoyevsky's famous books
"This 'real life' has something very original about it."
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
February 7, 2026 at 7:07 AM
"This 'real life' has something very original about it."
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
"Do you think yourself my master, that you try to keep me under lock and key like this?"
— Prince Myshkin, The Idiot
— Prince Myshkin, The Idiot
February 7, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"Do you think yourself my master, that you try to keep me under lock and key like this?"
— Prince Myshkin, The Idiot
— Prince Myshkin, The Idiot
"There would have been no civilization if they hadn't invented God."
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"There would have been no civilization if they hadn't invented God."
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
"Facts are not everything--at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!"
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
"Facts are not everything--at least half the business lies in how you interpret them!"
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
"Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions--it's like a dream."
— Zossimov, Crime and Punishment
— Zossimov, Crime and Punishment
February 6, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions--it's like a dream."
— Zossimov, Crime and Punishment
— Zossimov, Crime and Punishment
"the real truth always sounds improbable, do you know that? To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it. Men have always done so."
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
February 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM
"the real truth always sounds improbable, do you know that? To make truth sound probable you must always mix in some falsehood with it. Men have always done so."
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
"Ideas, if you like, are fermenting, and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands."
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 AM
"Ideas, if you like, are fermenting, and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands."
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
"He's storing up ideas"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
February 6, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"He's storing up ideas"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
"Every instinct told him that there was something utterly incongruous, anomalous, and grotesque, though there's no telling what may not happen with this 'younger generation,' and the devil only knows what's going on among them."
— The Possessed
— The Possessed
February 5, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"Every instinct told him that there was something utterly incongruous, anomalous, and grotesque, though there's no telling what may not happen with this 'younger generation,' and the devil only knows what's going on among them."
— The Possessed
— The Possessed
"Away with the past. I've done with the old world for ever, and may I have no news, no echo, from it. To a new life, new places and no looking back!"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
"Away with the past. I've done with the old world for ever, and may I have no news, no echo, from it. To a new life, new places and no looking back!"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
"What would you say to a driver who wouldn't make way for any one, but would just drive on and crush people?"
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
February 5, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"What would you say to a driver who wouldn't make way for any one, but would just drive on and crush people?"
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
"Who can understand the original idea in this?"
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
February 5, 2026 at 11:07 AM
"Who can understand the original idea in this?"
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
"We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to!"
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
February 5, 2026 at 7:07 AM
"We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to!"
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
— Razumihin, Crime and Punishment
"There is always a something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain there with you, and you alone, for ever and ever."
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
February 5, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"There is always a something, a remnant, which will never come out from your brain, but will remain there with you, and you alone, for ever and ever."
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
"He's storing up ideas"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"He's storing up ideas"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
"I wish to verify the working of the natural logic of my ideas tomorrow during the reading—whether I am capable of detecting logical errors."
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
February 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
"I wish to verify the working of the natural logic of my ideas tomorrow during the reading—whether I am capable of detecting logical errors."
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
"People are happy who have no need of locks."
— Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment
— Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment
February 4, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"People are happy who have no need of locks."
— Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment
— Raskolnikov, Crime and Punishment
"I wish to verify the working of the natural logic of my ideas tomorrow during the reading—whether I am capable of detecting logical errors."
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 AM
"I wish to verify the working of the natural logic of my ideas tomorrow during the reading—whether I am capable of detecting logical errors."
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
— Hippolyte, The Idiot
"There's a lofty idea in the open road too!"
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
February 4, 2026 at 7:07 AM
"There's a lofty idea in the open road too!"
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
— Stepan Trofimovitch, The Possessed
"And to think, only to think that a man's life should be ruined for the sake of that paltry three thousand!"
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
February 4, 2026 at 3:07 AM
"And to think, only to think that a man's life should be ruined for the sake of that paltry three thousand!"
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
— Mitya, The Brothers Karamazov
"The mysterious coming of a new creature, a great and inexplicable mystery; and what a pity it is that you don't understand it."
— Shatov, The Possessed
— Shatov, The Possessed
February 3, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"The mysterious coming of a new creature, a great and inexplicable mystery; and what a pity it is that you don't understand it."
— Shatov, The Possessed
— Shatov, The Possessed
"He's storing up ideas"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
February 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
"He's storing up ideas"
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
— Ivan, The Brothers Karamazov
"Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself."
— Svidrigaïlov, Crime and Punishment
— Svidrigaïlov, Crime and Punishment
February 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
"Here at least one blames others for everything and excuses oneself."
— Svidrigaïlov, Crime and Punishment
— Svidrigaïlov, Crime and Punishment
"On one point they will show diabolical cunning, while another will escape them altogether."
— The Brothers Karamazov
— The Brothers Karamazov
February 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM
"On one point they will show diabolical cunning, while another will escape them altogether."
— The Brothers Karamazov
— The Brothers Karamazov
"I want to speak to at least one person, as I would to myself."
— Aglaya, The Idiot
— Aglaya, The Idiot
February 3, 2026 at 7:07 AM
"I want to speak to at least one person, as I would to myself."
— Aglaya, The Idiot
— Aglaya, The Idiot