I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don't succeed, I quit!
Fyodor DostoevskyI love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky โ thatโs all it is. Itโs not a matter of intellect or logic, itโs loving with oneโs inside, with oneโs stomach.
Fyodor DostoevskyI have in my own life merely carried to the extreme that which you have never ventured to carry even halfway ; and what's more, you've regarded your cowardice as prudence, and found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that, in fact, I may be even more "alive" than you are. Do take a closer look!
Fyodor DostoevskyWhoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.
Fyodor Dostoevsky