Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he’d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children’s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What’s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
Fyodor DostoevskyIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyI used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.
Fyodor Dostoevsky