Dostoevsky is the Old Testament; Tolstoy, the New Testament.
Dostoevsky's theme is God; Tolstoy's, Love.
In Dostoevsky, everyone's punished; in Tolstoy, everyone's heartbroken.
In Dostoevsky, God wins, if He's playing; in Tolstoy, love conquers all, and all conquers love.
(Chekhov. Pushkin. Pasternak. I love them best).
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I love them all, but my heart belongs to Gogol.
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