Dostoevsky: "I am a realist in the higher sense."

[Julie Cassiday]

Dear SEE-langers,
I'm trying to find the source of Dostoevsky's quote:  "I am a realist in the higher sense."  Would any of you happen to know where this comes from?
Thanks!
Katherine Desormeau, Williams College

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