Fyodor Dostoevsky

Based on a St Petersburg news report, Dostoyevsky's searing tale of a man who drives his wife to suicide.

The Meek One

Lauri

I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that she was afraid I deliberately intensified it.

The kind and meek don't resist for long, and although they are by no means very open, they don't at all know how to avoid conversation: they answer grudgingly, but they answer and the longer it goes on, the more they answer; but if this is what you want, you can't let yourself be tired.

And I'm a master of speaking silently – all my life I've spoken silently and I've lived through entire tragedies in silence.

We went in silence and returned in silence. Why, why did we from the very beginning choose to be silent?

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