I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
Fyodor DostoevskyIn most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.
Fyodor DostoevskyIn a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state. Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.
Fyodor Dostoevsky