Nikhil

“can’t help but be reminded of that weak and sickly girl, at whom you sometimes look with pity, sometimes with a compassionate love, and sometimes you simply do not notice her, but then suddenly, for a moment, she somehow, unexpectedly, becomes inexplicably, wonderfully beautiful, and you, startled and intoxicated, unwittingly ask yourself: What power caused those sad, thoughtful eyes to shine with such fire?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“he desires nothing, because he is above desire, because he has everything, because he is sated, because he himself is the artist of his life and he creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“it is that when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Absolutely without stories of any kind! I lived, as they say, on my own, that is, absolutely alone – alone, completely alone – do you understand what it means to be alone?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights