 As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naíve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Where is it that I was reading about a man condemned to death who thought or said an hour before his death that if he had to live some where on a crag, on a cliff, on a narrow ledge where his two feet could hardly stand, and all around him there would be the abyss, the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, and an everlasting storm, and he had to remain like that—standing on a square yard of space—all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it would still be better to live like that than to die at the moment. To live and to live and to live and to live! No matter how you live, if only to live.
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment
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