In a world that celebrates defiance and detachment, Dostoevsky offers a radical proposal: that truth begins not with pride, but with kneeling — with choosing to be seen in all our brokenness.

When your mind won’t rest and your heart won’t harden, suffering isn’t just possible - it’s expected. But so is transformation.

To repeat someone else's truth, even if it is correct, is to surrender the very thing that makes you human: your agency and autonomy. Razumikhin proposes that it's better to stumble through your own nonsensical beliefs than to puppet someone else.