Love

A quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

English translation: Constance Garnett

From the source

The Brothers Karamazov, Book II, Chapter IV, “A Lady of Little Faith”.

English translation by Constance Garnett. Historical translation reproduced in the linked source.

Father Zossima contrasts practical love with love in dreams.