Dostoyevsky threw me a rope in the fog and began to tug. When he wrote that “the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for,”
I share Teddy’s sentiment about Dostoyevsky here. When I first read the Russian great, it felt like I was being exposed to a brand-new way of looking at the world.
Teddy, like many of the other young, idealistic CIA officers during the time, believed their work had a higher purpose. They wanted to change the world and believed literature could do it.
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