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By Fyodor Dostoevsky
…for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
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- The Brothers Karamazov (translated by Constance Garnett), Book Two, Chapter 4
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- Translated by Constance Garnett; Project Gutenberg text, eBook #28054
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From The Brothers Karamazov (Book Two, Chapter 4, 'A Lady of Little Faith'), in Constance Garnett's English translation. Spoken by the elder Father Zossima to a society lady who has come to him doubting her own faith and her love for others. It is a character's words, not Dostoevsky speaking in his own voice. Dostoevsky wrote in Russian, so this is the translator's wording.