To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in s... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

"Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind."

"Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."

"What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be."

"Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind."