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Quotation from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky (spoken by Father Zosima)

The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, Chapter 3, Of Hell and Hell Fire, trans. Constance Garnett (1912)

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Zosima defines hell in moral and relational terms during his spiritual reflections.

Citation: "What is hell?” I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love" — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, Chapter 3, Of Hell and Hell Fire, trans. Constance Garnett (1912). (id the-brothers-karamazov-q2)

Virtues: Charity

Portrait: Dostoevsky-Brothers Karamazov, Russkii Vestnik, Public domain.

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