Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.
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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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If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness
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Life had stepped into the place of theory and something quite different would work itself out in his mind.
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