Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights Quotes

But how could you live and have no story to tell?

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

Oh, how unbearable is a happy person sometimes!

and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!

Do you know that I love now to recall and visit at certain dates the places where Iwas once happy in my own way? I love to build up my present in harmony with the irrevocable past...