Melody Puller

“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

“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

“My dear," she had said to Mamma, "I could not bring myself to give the child anything that was not well written,”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View