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“I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.”

Reading Virginia Dostoyevsky Woolf Gogol

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.”

Thinking Way Reading Philosopher Impressed Love Of Reading Dostoyevsky Pascal French Philosopher

Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.”

Ifs Art Pain Genius Dostoyevsky

Book:Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

“There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.”

Knows Needs Book Enough Teach Brother Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov Slaughter House 5 Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.”

Writing Matter Huge Rivers Mere Lakes Feeding Dostoyevsky

Author:Jean Rhys

“Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I FANCY YOU!”

Soul Eye Fire My Soul Fancy Dostoyevsky

Author:Eddie Izzard

“The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky”

“Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.”

Men Guy Reading Saws Feet Cold Six Police Library Edges Expected Despite League Paris This Guy Athletic Surviving Explosions Ivy Hardened Dostoyevsky Ivy League Loafers

Author:Dan Brown

“It happened, as many things do, imperceptibly, in many ways at once. I date it - the slow crumbling of my faith, the pulverization of my fortress - from the time, about a year after I had begun to preach, when I began to read again. I justified this desire by the fact that I was still in school, and I began, fatally, with Dostoyevsky.”

Way Years Stills Facts School Desire Happened Justified Fortresses Crumbling Dostoyevsky

Author:James A. Baldwin

“People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness... Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”

“A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.”

Men Moments Certain Hate Standards Setting Settings Vain Decent High Standards Dostoyevsky Decent Man Fyodor Dostoyevsky Notes From The Underground

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”

Knows Years Littles Real Whole Moments Helping Dream Night Week Real Life Dreamer Dostoyevsky Whole Year Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Book:The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.”

Ifs Writing Written Dostoyevsky

Author:William Faulkner

“Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.”

Ifs Reason Character Reality Seems Literature Figures Conscious Reason Why Unconscious Imaginative Dostoyevsky

Author:Edwin Muir

“Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.”

Mind Stories My Own Decided Sticks Woody Dickens Dostoyevsky

Author:Bob Dylan

“If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

Ifs Dostoyevsky Tchaikovsky

Author:Uzo Aduba

“The point is that if there is no God, then objective right and wrong do not exist. As Dostoyevsky said, “All things are permitted.”

Ifs Said All Things Objectives There Is No God Dostoyevsky

Book:On Guard for Students: A Thinker's Guide to the Christian Faith

Source: On Guard for Students: A Thinker's Guide to the Christian Faith

“Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.”

Trying Eye Sex Contact Rough Eye Contact Dostoyevsky Rollercoaster

Author:Jenna Jameson

“To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader; so that in contact with the chaos of ordinary life certain free and flowing outlines emerge, like the forms of some classic picture, endowing both people and things with a grandeur beyond what is visible to the superficial glance.”

“The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.”

Doe Self Left Voice Century Capacity Contrary Greek Telling The Truth Milton Bedrock Dostoyevsky Chaucer

Book:Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

Source: Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books

“I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?”

Men Feels Writing Wonder Dostoyevsky

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

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