What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Father Zosima's teaching, from the notes of his life and conversations.
Fyodor Dostoevsky · Father Zosima's teaching, from the notes of his life and conversations.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · Father Zosima to a lady who loves humanity in the abstract and cannot bear the people in front of her.
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The epilogue, Raskolnikov and Sonia on the riverbank in Siberia, the moment the novel turns from crime toward life.
Fyodor Dostoevsky · The last words of the story, the Dreamer looking back on his four nights with Nastenka after she has gone back to the man she waited for; Constance Garnett's translation.
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