It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
("Crime and Punishment")
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Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.
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I tell Thee that man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find some one quickly to whom he can hand over that gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant!
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I am glad that at such a moment my young man turned out to be not so reasonable; the time will come for an intelligent man to be reasonable, but if at such an exceptional moment there is no love to be found in a young man's heart, then when will it come?
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