I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Dream Dreamer Fyodor Dostoyevsky Memories White Nights

It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated...

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Common Humanity Compassion Suffering White Nights

I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fyodor Dostoyevsky Forgotten Loneliness Unwanted White Nights