Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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• Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Live
  • Children
  • Love