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Elder Zossima

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A character in The Brothers Karamazov who receives a confession from a stranger about the dangers of isolation and individualism in modern society.

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The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky
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"From book 6 when the stranger comes to confess to the Elder Zossima: 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet.'"
Favourite passage from The Brothers Karamazov · u/phil_shah_iran · ↑40 · 2025-06-07
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