“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky · Love quote

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky quote card
Writer · 1821 – 1881

Russian novelist, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.

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