For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it.
Fyodor DostoevskyAt first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.
Fyodor DostoevskyI believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.
Fyodor DostoevskyI did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded, and that their pride makes them refuse to surrender till the last moment and shrink from giving expression to their feelings before you. to have guessed the truth from the timidity with which she had repeatedly approached her sarcasm, only bringing herself to utter it at last with an effort.
Fyodor Dostoevsky