I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Indeed, precious memories may remain even of a bad home, if only the heart knows how to find what is precious.
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My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman who brought no good to anyone, to murder whom would pardon forty sins, who sucked the lifeblood of the poor, and you call that a crime ?
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And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?
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A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.
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People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.
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