Being Aliocha Karamazov

"Soyez gais comme les enfants, comme les oiseaux du ciel. Et que le péché des hommes ne vous trouble pas dans votre oeuvre, ne craignez pas qu'il l'étouffe et l'empêche de s'accomplir, ne dites pas: le péché est puissant, alors que nous sommes seuls et faibles, le mauvais milieu vaincra et ne laissera pas s'accomplir la bonne oeuvre. Fuyez, mes enfants, ce découragement! Il n'est contre lui que le salut: porte-toi toi-même répondant de tous les péchés des hommes."

Dit le staretz Zossima sur son lit de mort. Il dit aussi quelques pages après, qu'il songe, ""Qu'est-ce que l'enfer?" Je raisonne ainsi: "C'est la souffrance de ne plus pouvoir aimer.""

Voilà, sur ces belles paroles, je vous souhaite une journée radieuse et pleine de joie!

Peace & oil.

Fédor Dostoïevski, Les frères Karamazov, trad. Élisabeth Guertik, p. 368 et 371, Le livre de Poche, 2010

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