"I feel pity for him, and that..." - Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.”

“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”

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

“Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her”

“For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself”

“It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.”

“But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise”

“Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.”

“A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.”