

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― White Nights
― White Nights

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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