To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – whats going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. – Jonathan Safran Foer