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Quotation from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Why, that picture might make some people lose their faith.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (spoken by Prince Myshkin)

The Idiot, Part II, Chapter IV, trans. Constance Garnett

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Myshkin's reaction to the copy of Holbein's dead Christ hanging over a door in Rogozhin's house.

Citation: "Why, that picture might make some people lose their faith." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Part II, Chapter IV, trans. Constance Garnett. (id the-idiot-q3)

Portrait: Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vasily Perov, Public domain.

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