If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.
In the original Russian
уничтожьте в человечестве веру в свое бессмертие, в нем тотчас же иссякнет не только любовь, но и всякая живая сила, чтобы продолжать мировую жизнь.
The Brothers Karamazov · 1879
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Current citation
Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.
Original citation
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.