What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?
("The Brothers Karamazov")
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I maintain that he is in his right mind, and that if he had not been, he would have behaved more cleverly.
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That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.
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I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.
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He saw that the Prisoner had listened carefully all the time, looking gently in his face--But evidently he did not want to reply. The old man longed for Him to say something, however bitter and terrible. But he suddenly approached the old man in silence and softly kissed him on the forehead.
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Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly, but a person to whom such questions occur is himself capable of suffering.
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