Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance.

For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.

Being in love doesn't mean loving.