# Quote — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler

> Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

- Author: [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md)
- Book: [The Gambler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-gambler.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-gambler/is-it-really

## More from this book

> A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-gambler/a-gentleman-even.md)

> And now once again I asked myself the question: do I love her? And once more I could not answer, that is to say, again, for the hundredth time, I answered that I hated her.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-gambler/and-now-once.md)