There are some people of great intelligence who indulge in paradox unconscionably; but when they have undergone great and constant sufferings for their ideas and made great sacrifices for them, you can't drive their notions out of their heads, and it is cruel to try it.
 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead (1860). copy citation

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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source The House of the Dead
Topic intelligence sacrifice
Date 1860
Language English
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