"Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if it takes a whole lifetime, don’t say that it’s a..."

“Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if it takes a whole lifetime, don’t say that it’s a waste of time. I am preoccupied by this mystery because I want to be a human being.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky in a letter to his brother Mikhail, 16 August 1839 (via russianist)