Han Hui Zhan

“May your sky be clear, may your sweet smile be bright and serene, may you be blessed for that moment of bliss that you gave to another lonely, grateful heart! My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“That’s why they so dislike the living process of life; they don’t want a living soul! The living soul demands life, the soul won’t obey the rules of mechanics, the soul is an object of suspicion, the soul is retrograde!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“And, generally, I hated saying: "Forgive
me, papa, I won't do it again"-not because I was incapable of saying it, but, on the contrary, perhaps precisely because I was all too capable of it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights