"...these youths fail to comprehend that the sacrifice of one's life is, in a large number of such instances, possibly the easiest option, and that to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of one's youth-inflamed life on difficult, laborious study, on book-learning, even if only for the purpose of decupling within oneself the strength required in order to serve that same truth and that same deed which has become one's dearest aspiration and which one has set oneself the task of accomplishing--such a sacrifice is quite often almost entirely beyond many of them."
from The Brothers Karamazov





















