"Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship."

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose works explored psychology, morality, and faith. He is best known for Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. His writing had a major influence on modern literature and philosophy.

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