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"If everyone must suffer in order, with their suffering, to purchase eternal harmony, what do young children have to do with it? It's quite impossible to understand why they should suffer and why should they should have to purchase harmony with their sufferings? Why have they also ended up as raw material to be manure for someone else's future harmony?"
— Nov 22, 2025 06:30AM
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"Among the poor, envy and the frustration of needs are at present, dulled by drunkenness. But soon, in place of alcohol, it will be blood, upon which they grow intoxicated."
— Dec 20, 2025 06:07PM
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"It is true that there are, in the monkhood, also many parasites, lovers of the flesh, voluptuaries and brazen vagabonds; worldly men of progressive education, point to this: you are, they say, idlers, and useless members of society. Shameless beggars, you live upon the efforts of others."
— Dec 20, 2025 06:01PM
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"Dear mother, beloved droplet of my blood, in truth, each of us is guilty before the others for everyone, only people don't realize it."
— Dec 16, 2025 02:05PM
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"This strange little observation flashed, like an arrow, through Alyosha's sad mind, sad and sorrowful, at that moment."
— Nov 24, 2025 03:12PM
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"There's nothing more seductive for man than the freedom of his subconscious, there's nothing more tormenting for him either."
— Nov 23, 2025 06:22AM
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"For the sake of a universal bowing down, they've destroyed one another with the sword. They created gods and challenged one another: give up your gods and come worship ours, or else death to you and to your gods, and so it will be until the world's end, when even gods will vanish from the world."
— Nov 22, 2025 08:52AM
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"Ah, you mean the only sinless one, and his blood? No, I haven't forgotten about him. I have, on the contrary, been amazed at how long it has taken you to introduce him into the argument. For your kind usually wheel him out right at the start."
— Nov 22, 2025 06:46AM
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"And so I decline the offer of eternal harmony altogether. It is not worth one single small tear of even one tortured little child that beat its breast with its little fists, and prayed in its foul-smelling dog-hole with its unredeemed tears addressed to dear Father God."
— Nov 22, 2025 06:37AM
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"You are to realize, novice, that preposterous things are all too necessary upon earth. The worst rests upon preposterous things, and indeed it's possible that without them, absolutely nothing would ever have come into existence. We know that which we know."
— Nov 21, 2025 04:13PM
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"The entire universe of knowledge is not worth the tears of that little child addressed 'dear father God.' I'll say nothing of the sufferings of grownups; they have eaten the apple and the devil with them, and the devil take them all but the children, the children..."
— Nov 21, 2025 04:06PM
