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Indeed, Georges Simenon, one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, only wrote sixty days a year, with three hundred days spent “doing nothing.” He published more than two hundred novels.
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for what is a man without desires, without free will and without choice,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Notes From the Underground
The Brothers Karamazov, which was appearing serially, was being read and discussed with great excitement.
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For people are created for happiness, and he who is completely happy can at once be deemed worthy of saying to himself: ‘I have fulfilled God’s commandment on this earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
These were years of terrible solitude for him, but also of self-judgment and the beginnings of a spiritual regeneration. On leaving prison, he wrote to N. D. Fonvizina, the wife of a political exile who had given him a copy of the Gospels: Not because you are religious, but because I myself have experienced and felt it keenly, I will tell you that
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