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What seemed to him strangest of all was that his brother Ivan, on whom alone he had rested his hopes, and who alone had such influence on his father that he could have stopped him, sat now quite unmoved, with downcast eyes, apparently waiting with interest to see how it would end, as though he had nothing to do with it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)
And this need for communality of worship is the chief torment of each man individually, and of mankind as a whole, from the beginning of the ages.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
People live by love: love of yourself is the beginning of death; love of other people and of God is the beginning of life.
Leo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
What is notable about your Alexei Fyodorovich that you should choose him for your hero?
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
But keep a good heart and have less fear! Are you afraid of the great expiation before you? No, it would be shameful to be afraid of it. Since you have taken such a step, you must harden your heart. There is justice in it. You must fulfil the demands of justice. I know that you don’t believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will liv
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