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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist of conscience, freedom, suffering and moral responsibility.
“The mystery of human existence lies not in staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Crime and Punishment
A solitary figure walking through a rain-soaked St Petersburg alley.
Crime and Punishment
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The Brothers Karamazov
A candlelit Russian monastery surrounded by winter darkness.
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A monumental novel on faith, doubt, suffering, family, freedom, guilt, and moral responsibility.
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“Father, show me that I must love you,’ and if that father is able to answer him and show him good reason, we have a real, normal, parental relation, not resting on mystical prejudice, but on a rational, responsible and strictly humanitarian basis.”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
A central Dostoevsky theme: meaning, suffering, and moral responsibility.