Saturday, January 8, 2022

Dostoevsky declared his existence by writing

I’ll tell you of myself that I have been a child of the age, a child of disbelief and doubt up until now and will be even (I know this) to the grave. What horrible torments this thirst to believe has cost me and continues to cost me, a thirst that is all the stronger in my soul the more negative arguments there are in me.


-Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky


Dostoevsky declared his existence by writing.

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