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Yet he loved people: it seems that he lived his whole life with an absolute faith in people, though no one ever thought of him as simple or naïve. There was something in him that said, and made you believe (and this was so throughout his life), that he did not wish to sit in judgement on others and would never take it upon himself to censure anyone
... See moreFyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
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.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
And therefore, trusting greatly in the mercy of God, I live in hopes that I’ll be completely forgiven, sir.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
The story has made us expect this, because, so far, we have not seen Olenka consider and then reject someone—whomever Chekhov introduced, she loved. But Chekhov asks (is alert to the value of asking), “Okay, but what if she doesn’t settle for Trot?” This sort of narrative alertness is one of Chekhov’s prime gifts. That is, he’s alert to the full po
... See moreGeorge Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
“I think that everyone should love life before everything else in the world.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
You are anxious about whether you will rise from the dead or not, but you rose from the dead when you were born and you didn't notice it.
Pasternak Boris • Doctor Zhivago
his expressionless face and cropped head were between her legs and a last fruit fell with a thud—the dropped dot of an inverted exclamation point.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
“How do you keep him from getting excited?” “It’s my own invention,” said Lee. “I call it conversational therapy.” “Must take all your time.” “It does,” said Lee.