He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.
Fyodor DostoevskyThere is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.
Fyodor DostoevskyI used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
Fyodor Dostoevsky