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all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice,
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)
He was seldom playful, seldom even merry, but anyone could see at once, at a glance, that this was not from any kind of sullenness, that, on the contrary, he was serene and even-tempered.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
“No, there is no God.” “Alyoshka, is there a God?” “There is.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
If we’re to come to love a man, the man himself should stay hidden, because as soon as he shows his face—love vanishes.”
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
En esprit, en- core, on peut aimer le prochain, de loin : de près, jamais.
Fédor Dostoïevski • Les Frères Karamazov (French Edition)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky caught the shock and scandal of the gospel of grace when he wrote: At the last Judgment Christ will say to us, “Come, you also! Come, drunkards! Come, weaklings! Come, children of shame!” And he will say to us: “Vile beings, you who are in the image of the beast and bear his mark, but come all the same, you as well.” And the wise
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