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Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter

Book by Gary Saul Morson · 7 quotes · Meaning Of Life, Change, Chekhov Characters

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“...a key idea in Russian literature: the meaning of life can be revealed only to those who suffer. The happy can doze, the miserable must reflect. 'Suffering lays bare the real nature of things,' Evgeniya Ginzburg observed. 'It is the price to be paid for a deeper, more truthful understanding of life.' Suffering sometimes reveals higher meanings and, as Solzhenitsyn insisted, 'nothing worthwhile can be built on a neglect of higher meanings.”