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The Brothers Karamazov

: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics. When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (8)Dmitri Karamazov (1)

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Suffering, Love, Inability to love, Hatred

“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Burn out, Stress, struggles, Tiredness, Healed

“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Adventure, Surprises, Taking Risks

“I can’t endure the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. What's still more awful is that a man with the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not renounce the ideal of the Madonna.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dmitri Karamazov, amazon.com

Tagged: But Then Gomorrah Calls, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism, Idealism

“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Silence, Fear, Holding Back

“With such a hell in your heart and your head, how can you live? How can you love?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: Hatred, Passion, Love

“Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Education, Meaning

“I am too young and I've loved you too much.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com

Tagged: puppy love