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“But to imagine that I should bear you a grudge, Nastenka! That I should cast a dark cloud over your serene, untroubled happiness; that I should cause distress to your heart… Oh never never!, May your sky be dear, may your sweet smile be bright and untroubled, and may you be blessed for that moment of blissful happiness which you gave to mother, lonely and grateful heart!”

“If only I could love you both at once! Oh, if only you were he!”

"Come along! Look at the sky, Nastenka. Look! Tomorrow it will bealovely day; what a blue sky, what a moon! Look; that yellow cloud covering it now, look, look! No, it has passed by. Look, look!" But Nastenka did not look at the cloud”
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“I do not love him, for I can only love what is magnanimous, what understands me, what is generous; for I am like that myself and he is not worthy of me—well, that's enough of him. He has done better than if he had deceived my expectations later, and shown me later what he was...”

"I love him; but I shall get over it, I must get over it, I cannot fail to get over it; I am getting over it, I feel that…Who knows? Perhaps it will all end today, for I hate him, for he has been laughing at me, while you have been weeping here with me, for you have not repulsed me as he has, for you love me while he has never loved me, for in fact, I love you myself... Yes, I love you!”

“I would love you so, that even if you still loved him, even if you went on loving the man i don't know, you would never feel that my love was a burden to you. You would only feel every minute that at your side was beating a grateful heart, a warm heart ready for your sake. Oh Nastenka, Nastenka! What have you done to me?"

“I felt that in my heart there was so much love for you, Nastenka, so much love! And it seemed so bitter that I could not help you with my love, that my heart was breaking and l…I could not be silent, I had to speak, Nastenka, I had to speak!"

I am to blame. I have abused your ... But no, no, l am not to blame, Nastenka; I feel that, I know that, because my heart tells me I am right, for I cannot hurt you in any way, I cannot wound you! I was your friend, but I am still your friend, I have betrayed no trust. Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow—they don't hurt anybody. They will dry, Nastenka.”

"It's impossible, but I love you, Nastenka! There it is! Now everything is told."
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"Nastenka, you torture me! You wound my heart, you are killing me, Nastenka! I cannot be silent! I must speak at last”
"Listen to me, Nastenka! What I am going to say to you now is all nonsense, all impossible, all stupid. l know that this can never be, but I cannot be silent. For the sake of what you are suffering now, I beg you beforehand to forgive mel"