The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
'No,' said the imp, 'that was not the way I did it. All I did was to see that the peasant had more corn than he needed. The blood of the beasts is always in man; but as long as he has only enough corn for his needs, it is kept in bounds.
Leo Tolstoy • The Greatest Short Stories of Leo Tolstoy
What Dostoevsky is doing to his characters, to the murderers, the madmen, the idiots, the possessed, is loving them [which is not necessarily the same as liking them]. That is: he is crafting a space where the unknowable engine at the bottom of their souls starts generating words that reveal them to themselves. He’s bringing them into being by atte... See more
I was told it as a child, and I joyfully believed it, because they told me what was in my soul. And who discovered it? Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence and the law which demands that everyone who hinders the satisfaction of my desires should be throttled. That is the conclusion of reason. Reason could not discover love for t
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