But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.


“I was walking and singing, because when I am happy I am sure to hum something to myself, like every other happy man who has neither friends nor good acquaintances and who in a joyful moment has nobody with whom he can share his joy.”
― White Nights
― White Nights

“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man’s life?”
― White Nights
― White Nights

“I’m a dreamer; I have so little real life that I regard such moments as this one, now, to be so rare that I can’t help repeating these moments in my dreams.”
― White Nights
― White Nights

“he desires nothing, because he is above desire, because he has everything, because he is sated, because he himself is the artist of his life and he creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.”
― White Nights
― White Nights

“Absolutely without stories of any kind! I lived, as they say, on my own, that is, absolutely alone – alone, completely alone – do you understand what it means to be alone?”
― White Nights
― White Nights

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