And do you know, do you know that mankind can live without the Englishman, it can live without Germany, it can live only too well without the Russian man, it can live without science, without bread, and it only cannot live without beauty, for then there would be nothing at all to do in the world! The whole secret is here, the whole of history is here. Science itself would not stand for a minute without beauty
Fyodor DostoevskyWhat is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
Fyodor Dostoevsky