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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

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Dostoevsky wrote it young, and with the bitterness of a man who had just lost his wife. Read afterwards it becomes an argument about the cost of being able to see and feel a great deal, rather than a complaint about suffering itself.

Source: Letters

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