For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
Fyodor DostoevskyThey were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
Fyodor DostoevskyIn most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
Fyodor DostoevskyBrother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter – this is what life is, herein lies its task.
Fyodor Dostoevsky