Phenomenal Writing

If I seem so happy to you, you could never say anything that would please me so much. For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God’s will on earth.’

For the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

He was well aware of his own considerable abilities, and nervously exaggerated them in his self-conceit.

“This boulevard is never much frequented; and now, at two o’clock, in the stifling heat, it was quite deserted.”

Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

The Karamazovs’ house was far from being in the centre of the town, but it was not quite outside it.

Oh! he understood that for the humble soul of the Russian peasant, worn out by grief and toil, and still more by the everlasting injustice and everlasting sin, his own and the world’s, it was the greatest need and comfort to find some one or something holy to fall down before and worship.