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“I fear my beloved girl', I said, 'little happiness remains for us on earth; yet all that I may one day enjoy is centred in you'.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Never had they thought their judgements, their scientific conclusions, their moral convictions and beliefs more unshakeable…Everyone became anxious, and no one understood anyone else; each thought the truth was contained in himself alone…They did not know whom or how to judge, could not agree on what to regard as evil, what as good. They did not know whom to accuse, whom to vindicate.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Adolescent

“..The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is retrograde!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“And if he had to do it over, choose which Sren son had died—Hiero, who cared too much, or himself, who never cared enough—he'd choose himself, easily.”
― Vanessa Le, When Shadows Burn