THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF DOSTOYEVSKY

f I fail I don’t lose heart, if I succeed I persevere.”

“All things come in time to him who has the strength to wait.”

but what has once been done cannot be recalled … can never be recalled.

With that he requested me to give his proposal my favourable consideration — saying that he would not like me to take such an important step unguardedly, since want of thought and impetuosity often spelt ruin to youthful inexperience, but that he hoped to receive an answer in the affirmative.

You will but spoil your life if you constantly lament another person’s sorrow.

Our lots in life are apportioned by the Almighty according to our human deserts.

Literature is a sort of picture — a sort of picture or mirror.

Who diggeth a pit for another one, the same shall fall into it himself