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“You've done so much for me, so much,' he said, 'that my own father and mother could not have done as much: you've made me into a man, God will reward you and I will never forget you...”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead

“Night falls fast.
Today is in the past.

Blown from the dark hill hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“What would I be without God?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different.”
― David Brooks, The Road to Character

“The depressed person is mired in the past; the manic person is obsessed with the future. Both destroy the present in the process.”
― Nassir Ghaemi, A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

“It's hard and complicated to live simply!”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

“Memories are either the greatest poetry, when they are memories of a vital happiness, or a burning pain, when they touch dried wounds.

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― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov

“How a man’s powers are wasted in the secret struggle of the soul with passion, how incurable, though bloodless, wounds are inflicted upon the heart and give rise to cries of agony, and how even life may be lost.”
― Ivan Goncharov, Oblomov