Fyodor Dostoevsky

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. ”

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once. ”

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ”

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ”

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. ”

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. ”

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. ”

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. ”