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con la confessione di stavrogin la capacità di dostoevskij di compiere l’introspezione di un personaggio tocca livelli altissimi
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You know real genuine sorrow will sometimes make even a phenomenally frivolous, unstable man solid and stoical, for a short time at any rate; what’s more, even fools are by genuine sorrow turned into wise men, also only for a short time of course, it is characteristic of sorrow.

“However, when I woke up, the cliffs and the sea and the slanting rays of the sun seemed to be still before my eyes, which, for the very first time in my life, were filled with tears. I remember those tears because I was happy and quite unashamed of them. A feeling of still unexperienced happiness rushed into my heart, making it ache.”