Sublime

The thing is that he does, perhaps, make a figure, but a figure of an indefinite, indeterminate sort.

And God said: 'Go-take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou has learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.'

But you did not know that as soon as man rejects miracles, he will at once reject God as well, for man seeks not so much God as miracles.

I remember it was precisely he who marveled most of all when he got acquainted with the young man, who interested him greatly and with whom he used—not without inner pangs—to have occasional intellectual altercations.

The righteous man departs, but his light remains.

“Brother, let me ask you one more thing: can it be that any man has the right to decide about the rest of mankind, who is worthy to live and who is more unworthy?”

Such things you love not with your mind, not with logic, but with your insides, your guts, you love your first young strength … Do you understand any of this blather, Alyoshka, or not?” Ivan suddenly laughed.

“Though I did it all sincerely, I must be smarter in the future,”

Chaque nuit, entouré des ronflements de la baraque, il s’est enivré en secret de sa force, du métal de son âme surhumaine dans laquelle un processus mystérieux, commencé dans l’Altaï auprès du trappeur Zolotarev, était en train de s’accomplir : une libération véritable, éternelle, dont il se demande avec une soudaine inquiétude si sa libération tem