Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. – Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821 – 81) (Image by Gino Crescoli from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
Beauty! I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What’s still more awful is that a man with the ideal of… More »
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. – Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (1821 – 81): The Brothers Karamazov (Image by jacqueline macou from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from… More »
Some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. – Alyosha Karamazov — Fyodor Mikhaylovich… More »
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