Dostoevsky's wife once put him to a rather cruel test. She slipped him an anonymous letter informing him of his wife's infidelity. She wrote the letter herself in an altered handwriting.
In the end, she was barely able to pacify her agitated husband.

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Once a drunken man knocked Dostoevsky off his feet with a strong blow to the back of the head. The writer asked not to bring the perpetrator to justice. When he was nevertheless convicted, Dostoevsky paid a fine for him.

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At the present time, no one will find it strange to talk about Dostoevsky's aesthetics, but a quarter of a century ago it would have aroused bewilderment among many writers. The view was widespread that Dostoevsky was an artist who completely neglected the art form at the expense of the ideological content. And therefore there is nothing to expect from him to delve into the problems of aesthetics.

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At the present time, no one will find it strange to talk about Dostoevsky's aesthetics, but a quarter of a century ago it would have aroused bewilderment among many writers. The view was widespread that Dostoevsky was an artist who completely neglected the art form at the expense of the ideological content. And therefore there is nothing to expect from him to delve into the problems of aesthetics.

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Auguste Comte "le grand pontife" of positivism, in his declining years wrote to the general of the Society of Jesus with a proposal to enter into an alliance with representatives of the "positivist religion" of mankind. Moreover, Comte expresses wonder in a letter to the general that the Jesuits associated their name with the name of such an insignificant person as Jesus, and advises the general to rename the Jesuits in memory of Ignatius Loyola

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The cognition of one's own and someone else's spiritual life interpenetrate each other to such an extent that it is hardly possible to have a deeper comprehension of the self without you, just as you are without me.

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