It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all. Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Idiot, 1869)

“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment