Three wonderful passages from Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Three passages excerpted for my notes from Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, unabridged, translated by Constance Garnett (New York: Signet Classics, Penguin Books, 1980):   Father Zossima to Madame Hohlakov, who has expressed her religious doubts and anguish to him: “[T]here’s no proving it, though you can be convinced of it.” “How?” “By […]