One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.
Fyodor DostoevskySorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
Fyodor DostoevskyFather monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky