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Quotation from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Compassion was the chief and perhaps only law of all human existence.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (spoken by Narrator, giving Myshkin's thoughts)

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

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wandering Petersburg in the hours before his fit, Myshkin hopes that compassion will awaken Rogozhin.

Citation: "Compassion was the chief and perhaps only law of all human existence." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Part II, Chapter V, trans. Constance Garnett. (id the-idiot-q5)

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

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