White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double Quotes

“Either a darting ray of sunshine had suddenly vanished behind a rain-cloud and rendered everything dull before my eyes, or perhaps the entire perspective of my future has flashed before me, so miserable and uninviting, and I saw mysef just as I was now, fifteen years on, growing old, in the same room, alone as now with the same old Matryona, grown not a whit more intelligent over the years.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double

“when we are unhappy we feel the unhappiness of others more; feeling is not destroyed but concentrated”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double

“I have seen very little of life, and I really sometimes don't know how to say things”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double

“Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost all touch, all instinct for the actual, the real”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double

“I see people, of course; but I am still alone”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double

“I am perishing in solitude”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double