No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster.
 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead (1860). copy citation

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Author Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source The House of the Dead
Topic hope effort
Date 1860
Language English
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