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By Fyodor Dostoevsky
I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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- The Brothers Karamazov (translated by Constance Garnett), Book Six, Chapter 3, section (i)
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- Translated by Constance Garnett; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #28054
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From The Brothers Karamazov (Book Six, Chapter 3, 'Of Hell and Hell Fire'), in Constance Garnett's English translation. Spoken by the elder Father Zossima in his talk to the monks, answering his own question 'What is hell?'. It is a character's words, not Dostoevsky speaking in his own voice. Dostoevsky wrote in Russian, so this is the translator's wording.