Dickens’s Inner Demon
Charles Dickens was such a powder keg of pent up emotions and energy that he set off every night to walk it off for three or four hours. If he stopped doing that, he said he would “just explode and perish.”
He once met the great Russian novelist Dostoevsky, who later recalled that Dickens had told him there were two people inside him – “One who feels as he ought to feel and one who feels the opposite.”
Dostoevsky replied, “Just two people?”