... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving even of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and eveyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and persistence, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.
Fyodor DostoevskyYou can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.
Fyodor DostoevskyItโs not God that I donโt accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoevsky