My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyWhite Nights"Morning" (the last section)
It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPart 3, chapter 5 ("My Necessary Explanation")Ippolit Terentyev
What if I were not to die! What if I could go back to life — what eternity! I would turn every minute into an age; I would lose nothing, I would count every minute as it passed.
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPart 1, chapter 5Prince Myshkin, retelling what a man reprieved on the scaffold told him
Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
GenuineFyodor DostoevskyLettersLetter to his brother Mikhail, 22 December 1849Fyodor Dostoevsky, aged twenty-eight
Circulating, but not genuine
All this struggle for life that just ends on a random day.
Not found in their worksattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky