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What is notable about your Alexei Fyodorovich that you should choose him for your hero?
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“I don’t praise him for taking bribes. I only say he is a nice man in his own way! But if one looks at men in all ways — are there many good ones left? Why, I am sure I shouldn’t be worth a baked onion myself . . . perhaps with you thrown in.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
We have reached a stage at which we have surrounded ourselves with more things, but have less joy.
Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
There is nothing more seductive for man than the freedom of his conscience, but there is nothing more tormenting either.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
The artificial ego-entity that the world (and Dostoyevsky himself perhaps) believes to be Dostoevsky is discovering a deeper, wider, smarter, braver personage that has traveled across leagues and eons to reach this present moment and will continue its passage long after "Dostoyevsky" is gone. The artist himself is disposable. What endures
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
Besides, this monk was meddlesome and adroit by nature, and extremely curious about everything.