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I used to go abroad, and I always felt sick at heart. Nothing special, really—you look, and it’s somehow sad.

Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart.

“He’s [Luzhin’s] an intelligent man, but it takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

“Ah Rodya…I’m sure that everything you do is wonderful!” his gladdened mother said. “don’t be so sure,” he said, twisting his mouth into a smile.

we’re all rather often almost like mad people, only with the slight difference that the ‘sick’ are somewhat madder than we are, so that it’s necessary to draw a line somewhere.

“Do you love your sister Sonya?” “I love her most of all.” “And will you love me?”

…something has been done: useful new ideas have been spread, and some useful new books, instead of the former dreamy and romantic ones; literature īs acquiring a shade of greater maturity; many harmful prejudices have been eradicated and derided… In short, we have cut ourselves off irrevocably from the past…

He was a zealous student, unsparing of himself, and was respected for it, but no one loved him.

And how did I dare give those twenty kopecks away? We’re they mine?

Man gets accustomed to everything, the scoundrel!

“What a stupid thing to have done,” he thought. “They have their Sonya and I need it myself.”

…his face suddenly changed and, glancing at Raskolnikov with a certain affected coyness and forced insolence, he laughed and said: “And today I went to see Sonya and asked her for the hair of the dog! … Heh, heh, heh!”

Not a word with it, not even a glance; she just took our big green flannel shawl (we have this one flannel shawl for the all of us), covered her head and face with it completely, and lay down on her bed, face to the wall; only her little shoulders and her whole body kept trembling…

and I am glad, I am glad, for at least in her imaginings she beholds herself as having once been happy…

It is not joy I seek, but sorrow only … I drink, for I wish to doubly suffer!

This is that which most of all hinders heavenly comfort, that thou art slow in turning thyself to prayer. For before thou earnestly prayers to Ne thou seekest in the meantime many comforts and delightest thyself in outward things.

Discipline, gravity, and dignity were the specific attributes of the old Roman liturgy.

I became the most humble and most abject of all, that thou lightest learn to overcome thy pride by My humility.

always breathe after things eternal

I am accustomed to visit My elect in two ways, that is by trial and by comfort. And I read them daily two lessons, one to rebuke their vices, the other to exhort them to the increase of virtues.

Let all things be loved for Jesus’ sake, but Jesus for His own sake.

‘…Why was I chosen?’ ‘… You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.’

…He deserves death.’ ‘Deserves it! I dare say he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I, said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.’

If celibacy is no longer a decisive value for the exercise of priestly ministry, religious life itself is devalued and relegated to the background in favor of the priestly function.

The transcendental uniqueness of this irruption of the Word into human history confers on the biblical culture a special place in the concert of nations and justifies its thorough teaching at great expense to all cultures…