And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: Which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky