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Quotation by Feodor Dostoyevsky
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Alyosha Karamazov, in The Brothers Karamazov (1880)Father Zossima, in The Brothers Karamazov (1879-1880), trans. by David Magarshak (1958)Ivan Ivanovich, in "Bobok" A Writer's Diary (1873)Ivan Karamazov, in The Brothers Karamazov (published 1879-1888), trans. by David Magarshak (1958)Ivan Karamazov, in The Brothers Karamazov (published 1879-1880), trans. by David Magarshak (1958)Related Subjects
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Imagine that it is you yourself who are erecting the edifice of human destiny with the aim of making men happy in the end, of giving them peace and contentment at last, but that to do that it is absolutely necessary, and indeed quite inevitable, to torture to death only one tiny creature, the little girl who beat her breast with her little fist, and to found the edifice on her unavenged tears—would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?
Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881), Russian novelist. Ivan Karamazov, in The Brothers Karamazov, bk. 5, ch. 4 (published 1879-1880), trans. by David Magarshak (1958).
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