I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
Fyodor DostoevskyTo crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
Fyodor DostoevskyNothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. โThe Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor DostoevskyMy soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.
Fyodor Dostoevsky