Dostoyevsky

How To Use Dostoyevsky In A Sentence

• To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
• We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• The flame of truism burns bright in Shane's love for Dostoyevsky's kind of Crime & Punishment.
• People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• Pain & suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
• When I read her boast that she sneaked Dostoyevsky into fashion shoots hidden in Cosmo (so as not to embarrass the other girls), my worst fears were confirmed. She Reads Dostoyevski You Know ...