"Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.”

“Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”

“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

“If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.”

“Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!”

“This world, such as it is, is not tolerable. Therefore I need the moon, or happiness, or immortality, I need something which is perhaps demented, but which is not of this world.”

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.”