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"Do not doubt in the power of the heavenly light. Have faith, that even if they have not been saved now, they shall be saved hereafter, and if they are not saved even hereafter, then their sons will be saved, for your light shall not die, though you are now dead. The righteous man shall depart, but his light remains."

"And indeed the roots of our thoughts and emotions are not here, but in other worlds. That is why the philosophers say that it is impossible to grasp the essence of things on earth. God took seeds from other worlds and sowed them upon this earth and cultivated his garden."

"My friends, ask God for gaiety; be gay as children, as the birds of the sky, and let not human sin confound you in your deeds."

"Love the animals. God has given them the basis of thought and an untroubled joy so do not disturb it, do not torment them, do not take away their joy, do not put yourself in opposition to God's intent; man exalt not yourself above the animals, they are sinless, and you, in your grandeur, fester the earth with your appearance on it and leave your festering footprints after you."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"This strange little observation flashed, like an arrow, through Alyosha's sad mind, sad and sorrowful, at that moment."

"There's nothing more seductive for man than the freedom of his subconscious, there's nothing more tormenting for him either."

"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."