🧩 Philosophy Oct 24, 2026 · Maria Popova

Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life
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“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart — that’s what life is all about, that’s its task.”

“I mean to work tremendously hard,” the young Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11, 1821–February 9, 1881) resolved in contemplating his literary future, beseeching his impoverished mother to buy him books. At the age of twenty-seven, he was arrested for belonging to a literary

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