I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights
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Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “Creation,”
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- Ivan Turgenev
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Fyodor Dostoevsky, from The Idiot
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"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations"
— Vladimir Nabokov.
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It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.
― Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (translated by George Reavy)
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Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin
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― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
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Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz, from Poems of Akhmatova; "To The Londoners,"
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Virginia Woolf
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