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DOSTOEVSKY ~ A VOICE FROM BENEATH THE DAYLIGHT WORLD

23 October 2011



“The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was ‘sublime and beautiful’, the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

b. 1821 (Russia), d.1881

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