General, The Idiot (1868–9)
“I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness.”
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Idiot
The Idiot (1868–9)
Context: I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.
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