The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. (Nikolai Berdyaev)

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Nikolai Berdyaev

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