He entered upon this path only because at the time, it alone struck his imagination and seemed to offer a means of escape for his soul from darkness to light. He was to some extent a youth of our past generation-that is, honest in nature, desiring the truth, believing in it and seeking for immediate action, and ready to sacrifice everything even life itself. These young men unhappily fail to understand that the sacrifice of life, in many cases, is the easiest sacrifice of all.
-Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
- Frankie B.
- “I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor-such is my idea of happiness. -Tolstoy
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