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Quotation from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The poor knight is the same Don Quixote, only serious and not comic.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (spoken by Aglaia Epanchin)

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

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Aglaia explains Pushkin's ballad of the poor knight before reciting it, with the prince plainly in her mind.

Citation: "The poor knight is the same Don Quixote, only serious and not comic." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Part II, Chapter VI, trans. Constance Garnett. (id the-idiot-q7)

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

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