I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
They sang the praises of nature, of the sea, of the woods. They liked making songs about one another, and praised each other like children; they were the simplest songs, but they sprang from their hearts and went to one’s heart. And not only in their songs but in all their lives they seemed to do nothing but admire one another. It was like being in love with each other, but an all-embracing, universal feeling.
if you had any idea how lonely i feel!
dostoyevsky, white nights.
Everyone in the world is good, every one of them. The world is a good place. We may be bad, but the world is a good place. We’re bad and good, both bad and good…
… a moment of bliss. why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?
dostoyevsky, white nights.
why does even the best person hold back something from another? why not say directly what we feel if we know that what we entrust won’t be scattered to the winds? as it is, everyone looks much tougher than he really is, as if he felt it’d be an insult to his feeling if he expressed them too readily.
dostoyevsky, white nights.
… those words mean so many things! that sort of love sometimes freezes a heart and makes life seem unbearable.
dostoyevsky, white nights.
when someone is unhappy, his sensitivity is not scattered; it becomes tense and concentrated.
dostoyevsky, white nights.
a dreamer, if you want me to define him, is not a real human being but a sort of intermediary creature. he usually installs himself in some remote corner, shrinking even from the daylight. and once he’s installed in that corner of his, he grows into it like a snail or at least like that curious thing which is at the same time an animal and a house - the tortoise.
dostoyevsky, white nights.