And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing re… - Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing re…
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expa… - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expa…
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God! - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Compassion is the chief law of human existence. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Compassion is the chief law of human existence.
He who masters the grey everyday is a hero. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
But how could you live and have no story to tell? - Fyodor Dostoevsky
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
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