In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well! .Fyodor Dostoyevsky
About This Quote
For all of us, our most cherished dreams are indeed made of dust. But the truth is, they are still capable of being fanned into flame--the heart's most powerful fuel. The heart longs for something different. We all know what that is.
It is the power to make our dreams come true--our hopes, our loves, our ideals. And when we don't have those things, we feel empty inside and empty out.
Source: White Nights
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