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'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

CHAPTER

The Importance of Joy in Life

In Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Anna Karenina there is real human joy. A mother caring for her children turns out to be the hero of the story in many stories. In War and Peace a soldier describes his happiest moment as being at a wolf hunt. The crucial thing about it is that you are so wrapped up in the moment, you wouldn't remember it.

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