Today’s One-Liner (#224)
Mama, do not weep, life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we do not want to know it, and if we did want to know it, tomorrow there would be paradise the…
Tag: The Brothers Karamazov
Love Is Labor
I am sorry that I cannot say anything more comforting, for active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with…
Today’s One-Liner (#164)
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. –The Gospel of John, 12:24
Today’s One-Liner (#148)
In Poor Folk we have the first timid and hesitant expression of the great theme of theodicy, the questioning of the wisdom of the world created by God—thus a questioning of God himself—that will ultimately…
Today’s One-Liner (#146)
Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. –The Elder Zosima, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
A Simple, Extraordinary Gift/1
“And I am with you, too, I won’t leave you now, I will go with you for the rest of my life,” the dear, deeply felt words of Grushenka came from somewhere near him. And…
Today’s One-Liner (#103)
I accept the torment of accusation and of my disgrace before all, I want to suffer and be purified by suffering! –Dmitri Karamazov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Today’s One-Liner (#96)
I boasted to Rakitin that I gave an onion, but I’ll say it differently to you: in my whole life I’ve given just one little onion, that’s how much good I’ve done. –Grushenka to Alyosha,…
Reading “Job”
There were ample precedents in Dostoevsky’s work for his thematic focus on the problem of theodicy raised by Ivan—the problem of the existence of evil and suffering in a world presumably created by a God…
Today’s One-Liner (#70)
“And I shall also tell you, dear mother, that each of us is guilty in everything before everyone, and I most of all.” –Markel, in Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov