DAY 87

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880
Братья Карамазовы
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

If everything is permitted, can we truly be free in our lives?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first opened this immense novel, I witnessed the soul of all humanity within the passions of a single family. Dostoevsky hurls the weightiest of themes—God, morality, freedom—through the mouths of his most worldly and tempestuous characters. Ivan's anguish—"if there is no God, everything is permitted"—cuts sharply into our inner lives today. Are we truly beings capable of bearing the weight of boundless freedom? This book gives no answer. Instead, it merely poses questions that will shake you to the very bottom of your soul.

— ONGO · Curator
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"지옥이란 무엇인가? 그것은 더 이상 사랑할 수 없다는 고통이다."

🌱Apply It Today

Today, write down just one decision you made instinctively that came from your own firm moral standard.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

白日夢
Daylight Dream
백일몽 · a brief flight from now
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