as it appears to apply to many the Athenian mind.
Of this different, reformed and "virtuous" life ("it must, it must be virtuous") he dreamed at every moment. He thirsted for that reformation and renewal. The filthy morass, in which he had sunk of his own free will, was too revolting to him, and, like many men in such cases, he put faith above all in change of place. If only it were not for these people, if only it were not for these circumstances, if only he could get away from this accursed place--he would be altogether different, would begin on a new path. That was what he believed in, and for what he was yearning.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Of this different, reformed and "virtuous" life ("it must, it must be virtuous") he dreamed at every moment. He thirsted for that reformation and renewal. The filthy morass, in which he had sunk of his own free will, was too revolting to him, and, like many men in such cases, he put faith above all in change of place. If only it were not for these people, if only it were not for these circumstances, if only he could get away from this accursed place--he would be altogether different, would begin on a new path. That was what he believed in, and for what he was yearning.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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