Thread by @Burnest137

Do not ask whether God exists. Ask whether you are willing to love without question and guarantee. The answer to that question will decide everything in your life

Dostoevsky taught me that in The Brothers Karamazov, perhaps the second most important book ever put to press. He finished it in November 1880.

He died on this day in 1881, never living to see its success. He intended to write a far more enlightening, far more dangerous sequal. But his work remained unfinished. However, the cannon completely has given humanity more than any other human, barring Christ

In the sequal, notes indicate the young saint like Alyosha, who was pure in faith and promise, would be tested in adulthood through politics, moral crisis, power and compromise. Ultimately facing nihilism and revolution through socialist communism.

Had Dostoevsky written the sequel, he would have been forced to resolve what he believed must remain open. Faith, temptation, freedom, and love.

The tragic death of Dostoevsky, proved artistic perfection. He gave us everything to question and the paths up the mountain of faith. And in his death, he handed over all the responsibility in finding the meaning of life, to us, the living.

But that isn’t the end of this Russian tragedy. There was another Russian great, by the name of Leo Tolsoy. His great Anna Karenina and War & Peace cemented him as one of the greatest writers of all time.

Tolstoy was a revolutionary communist, he throught suffering was unnecessary, Doetoevsky viewed this as the most dangerous vision for future Russia. In time, Dostoevsky was proven right. For Tolstoy wanted to solve suffering, Dostoevsky wanted to redeem it.

As old man, Dostoevsky had won over Tolstoys soul when Tolstoy penned Resurrection, religious essays. 30 years after Dostoevsky’s death, Tolstoy was found collapsed on a bench at a train station. When the station manager moved to help him, a book fell out of his coat. That book.

The Brothers Karamazov

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