Melody Puller

“I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“He could do nothing but twist his moustache, drink, and chatter the most inept nonsense that can possibly be imagined.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“You cannot imagine what wrath and sadness overcome your whole soul when a great idea, which you have long cherished as holy, is caught up by the ignorant and dragged forth before fools like themselves into the street, and you suddenly meet it in the market unrecognizable, in the mud, absurdly set up, without proportion, without harmony, the plaything of foolish louts!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

“In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way