And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by! ' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look, ' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world! ' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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This quote is from Franz Kafka’s The Castle. In the castle, the main character is confronted with a series of questions that he cannot answer. He tries to answer each question, but discovers that the answers do not fit the question. For example, when he asks: "Where are your dreams?," he replies: "I don't know. I am very tired and I don't want to think about it." But, reality is what we make of it; we can either make it a sad and lonely place or we can make it beautiful and bright.

Source: White Nights

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