Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do. Crime And Punishment

I was growing inward incessantly; like an animal that hibernates during the wintertime, I could hear other peoples' voices with my ears; my own voice, however, I could hear only in my throat. The loneliness and the solitude that lurked behind me were like a condensed, thick, eternal night, like one of those nights with a dense, persistent, sticky darkness which waits to pounce on unpopulated cities filled with lustful and vengeful dreams. The Blind Owl

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. Pride and Prejudice

“Let the confusion begin, no one can stop it, no one can escape, and some look for ways to take advantage of it.” Samarkand