Sublime

Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and remain one forever, ever, no matter what misfortunes befall, not to become depressed, and not to falter—this is what life is, herein lies its task. I

eight years of penal servitude,

Oui, parfois, une pensée bizarre, impossible, s’enfonce si fortement dans l’esprit qu’on finit par la prendre pour une réalité. Plus encore, – cette pensée est fortifiée par le désir, un désir irrésistible et fatal.

On me croyait riche; d'ailleurs, je croyais l'être.

Grand Dieu, au milieu de quels stupides individus on est forcé de vivre !

Dostoevsky’s heroes ‘feel deeply because they think deeply; they suffer endlessly because they were endlessly deliberative; they dare to will because they have dared to think’.

a line from a novel by Dostoevsky: “Money is coined freedom.”