The Brothers Karamazov

Ivan.

Story about God's and truth existence, relationship among the native people

gret book for all the realist

I wish I were Alyosha but I am a mix of Ivan and Smerdyakov

Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts. I am sorry that I can not say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving...more

Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts. I am sorry that I can not say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone watching. Indeed, it will go as far as the giving of one's life, provided it does not take long but is soon over, as on stage, and everyone is looking on and praising. Whereas active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science.   hide

"The stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward."- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

It's different than what I normally read - more challenging, definitely!

Another Dostoevsky masterwork informed by man's tremendous struggle between belief and doubt and by the power of redemptive suffering and salvation.

enormous work. precise, well-thought-out, niggling, and and and read it.