Vocation

"Oh, gentlemen, after all, perhaps I consider myself an intelligent man only because all my life I have been able neither to begin nor finish anything. Granted, granted I am a babbler, a harmless annoying babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?"

Фёдор Миха'йлович Достое'вский
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky