534 Dostoevsky and "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
The History of Literature
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The Light of a Sunny Day
"I thirst this very instant to kiss with tears the earth that I have left, and I don't want. I won't accept life on any other." "On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering. We know of no other sort of love," he says. He then finds himself in a paradise where people live as if they had never sinned. But is there suffering upon this new earth? And what will this dream mean for our ridiculous man when he wakes up?"
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