Kathi

“Not just in roulette, but everywhere, people do nothing but profit or take things away from one another”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

“I feel like a man who has lost his way. I yearn but to be in her presence, and within the circle of her light and splendour-to be there now, and forever, and for the whole of my life. More I do not know.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

“Compulsive gamblers do not fail to moderate their bets out of lack of will power, as we often say, but because the whole point of this kind of gambling is to maximize risk, pure risk, and so to achieve an amazing intensity of experience, for its own sake.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Gambler

“For me, love is something else entirely. It’s beyond all logic and impossible to describe or define. It’s one thing to like someone. To be consumed, body and soul, by desire is quite another. That’s what love is to me — desire that’s all-consuming. Desire that’s impossible to resist!”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat