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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“Of old it was said: ‘And they began to speak against me many things and evil things. And I heard it and said within myself: this is the medicine of Jesus, which he has sent me to heal my vain soul.’ And therefore we, too, humbly thank you, our precious guest.”
from The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Larissa Volokhonsky
he had understood something that until then he had been unwilling to understand.
from The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Larissa Volokhonsky
him, who until then had loved only “iniquity.”
from The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Larissa Volokhonsky
I could take you, Alyoshka, and press you to my heart until I crushed you, for in all the world … I really … re-al-ly … (understand?) … love only you!”
from The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Larissa Volokhonsky
Too many riddles oppress man on earth.
from The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Larissa Volokhonsky
It is also true, perhaps, that this tested and already thousand-year-old instrument for the moral regeneration of man from slavery to freedom and to moral perfection may turn into a double-edged weapon, which may lead a person not to humility and ultimate self-control but, on the contrary, to the most satanic pride—that is, to fetters and not to fr
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but only of love and mercy on one side, and on the other of repentance and the desire to resolve some difficult question of the soul or a difficult moment in the life of the heart.
from The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Larissa Volokhonsky
A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures, in order to occupy and amus
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which the nature of many women, after all, as the general examples show, cannot endure.
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‘I know, Nikitushka, ’ I’d say, ‘where else can he be if not with the Lord God, only he isn’t here, with us, Nikitushka, he isn’t sitting here with us like before!’
from The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue by Larissa Volokhonsky