The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical Writings: Complete Psychological and Existential Works of 19th-Century Russia

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

He was simply an early lover of humanity, and that he adopted the monastic life was simply because at that time it struck him, so to say, as the ideal escape for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness to the light of love.