“In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
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“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
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“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
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