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Every one is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
The Brothers Karamazov, Book VI, 1880
Translated by Constance Garnett · Literature and scripture
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What this means, and why it matters to a father

Father Zosima's teaching on universal responsibility—that each person answers not only for themselves but for all those around them—is the moral heart of the novel.

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