Dostoievsky Quotes

“The staying awake was a great self-sacrificaing gesture of friendship, and wonderfully in keeping with our current mood of intense friendship and religious fervour. We were all in a state of shock. We engaged in a long Dostojevskyan conversations and drank one black coffee after another. It was sort of night typical of youth, the sort you only can look back on with shame and embarassment once you've grown up. But God knows, I must have grown up already by then, because I don't feel the slightest embarassment when I think back to it, just a terrible nostalgia.”
― Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

“Dostoievski a fost un pribeag rus, un pelerin în lumile spirituale.
Nu a avut casa şi pămîntul său, nu a deţinut "cuibul"
confortabil al unor conace moşiereşti. Nu e legat de statica
existenţei, e în dinamica ei, în zbucium . Il stn1.bat şuvoaie care
vin din viitor, se află în revoluţia spiritului. El e omul Apocalipsului.
Slavofilii nu erau cuprinşi de maladia apocaliptică .
Dostoievski infăţişează cu precădere destinul pelerinului şi al rencgatu:lui
rus. El consideră pelerinajul o pribeagă trăsătură rusească.
Slavofilii erau tereştri, crescuţi pe pămîntul cu oameni,
oamenii tari ai pămîntului. Pămîntul de sub ci e tare, dur.
Dostoievski a fost un om subteran. Elementul lui este focul,
nu pămîntul.”
― Nikolai A. Berdyaev

“To me without Dostoievsky's work there would be a deep, black hole in world literature. The loss of Shakespeare, who must seem like a wild man to the Chinese, would not be as great as losing Dostoievsky.”
― Henry Miller, Sextet: Six essays

“The master of the world, after his legitimacy has been contested, must be overthrown. Man must occupy his place. “As God and immortality do not exist, the new man is permitted to become God.” But what does becoming God mean? It means, in fact, recognizing that everything is permitted and refusing to recognize any other law but one’s own. Without it being necessary to develop the intervening arguments, we can see that to become God is to accept crime (a favorite idea of Dostoievsky’s intellectuals).”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

“Pouchkine était son père spirituel. Pouchkine domina la vie littéraire de Dostoïevski du début à la fin. C'est pour lui, l'idole littéraire de sa jeunesse, que le romancier prit pour la dernière fois la parole en public. En 1880, à l'occasion de l'inauguration du monument Pouchkine, Dostoïevski prononça un discours qui eut un immense retentissement dans toute la Russie.”
― Joseph Frank, Dostoïevski, un écrivain dans son temps (LITTERATURE ETR)

“Ce n'est qu'après de longues années d'épreuves et d'expériences extraordinaires, que Dostoïevski cet influence en art tragique et authentique tempéré par la vie.”
― Joseph Frank, Dostoïevski, un écrivain dans son temps (LITTERATURE ETR)