Emma

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“but I thought, as I was already standing over the water, that if I've considered myself a strong man all along, then let me not be afraid of shame now”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“it was as if fog suddenly fell around him and confined him in a hopeless and heavy solitude”
― Dostoevskij Fedor Mikhajlovich, Crime and Punishment

“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
― George Orwell, 1984