All 50 Uses of
therefore
in
The Idiot
- We have just agreed that with regard to our relationship there is not much to be said, though, of course, it would have been very delightful to us to feel that such relationship did actually exist; therefore, perhaps—†
Chpt 1.3therefore = for that reason
- "Therefore, perhaps I had better get up and go away?" said the prince, laughing merrily as he rose from his place; just as merrily as though the circumstances were by no means strained or difficult.†
Chpt 1.3
- It is true that her nature sometimes rebelled against these dictates of reason, and that she grew yearly more capricious and impatient; but having a respectful and well-disciplined husband under her thumb at all times, she found it possible, as a rule, to empty any little accumulations of spleen upon his head, and therefore the harmony of the family was kept duly balanced, and things went as smoothly as family matters can.†
Chpt 1.4
- Besides this, it was clear that the Epanchins' position gained each year, with geometrical accuracy, both as to financial solidity and social weight; and, therefore, the longer the girls waited, the better was their chance of making a brilliant match.†
Chpt 1.4
- The general and his wife were aware of this agreement, and, therefore, when Totski suggested himself for one of the sisters, the parents made no doubt that one of the two elder girls would probably accept the offer, since Totski would certainly make no difficulty as to dowry.†
Chpt 1.4
- He knew well that Nastasia thoroughly understood him and where to wound him and how, and therefore, as the marriage was still only in embryo, Totski decided to conciliate her by giving it up.†
Chpt 1.4
- He added that the sum would have been left her all the same in his will, and that therefore she must not consider the gift as in any way an indemnification to her for anything, but that there was no reason, after all, why a man should not be allowed to entertain a natural desire to lighten his conscience, etc., etc.; in fact, all that would naturally be said under the circumstances.†
Chpt 1.4
- My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- I am one and you are the other, and therefore both of us suffer, both of us are unhappy.†
Chpt 1.7
- "I think I ought to tell you, Gavrila Ardalionovitch," said the prince, suddenly, "that though I once was so ill that I really was little better than an idiot, yet now I am almost recovered, and that, therefore, it is not altogether pleasant to be called an idiot to my face.†
Chpt 1.7
- I do not like this sort of thing, and especially so at the first time of meeting a man, and, therefore, as we happen to be at this moment standing at a crossroad, don't you think we had better part, you to the left, homewards, and I to the right, here?†
Chpt 1.7
- He had long since determined, therefore, to get his father out of the way, anywhere, before his marriage, in order to avoid such a meeting; but when Nastasia entered the room just now, he had been so overwhelmed with astonishment, that he had not thought of his father, and had made no arrangements to keep him out of the way.†
Chpt 1.9
- "I have no wit, Nastasia Philipovna," began Ferdishenko, "and therefore I talk too much, perhaps.†
Chpt 1.14
- He resolved therefore, to see it out, and to adopt the attitude of silent spectator, as most suited to his dignity.†
Chpt 1.15
- The situation had, therefore, become three times as fantastic as before.†
Chpt 1.16
- I must, however, find something to do for the present, and therefore I have got employment on the railway at twenty-four roubles a month.†
Chpt 2.2
- "Your love is mingled with hatred, and therefore, when your love passes, there will be the greater misery," said the prince.†
Chpt 2.3
- You are suspicious, you know, and jealous, therefore when anything annoying happens to you, you exaggerate its significance.†
Chpt 2.3
- Therefore, if the shop existed and if this object were really in the window, it would prove that he had been able to concentrate his attention on this article at a moment when, as a general rule, his absence of mind would have been too great to admit of any such concentration; in fact, very shortly after he had left the railway station in such a state of agitation.†
Chpt 2.5
- Convinced, therefore, that in this respect at all events he had been under no delusion, he left the shop and went on.†
Chpt 2.5
- Therefore they are not really a higher kind of life, but a lower.†
Chpt 2.5
- He therefore remained, partly through curiosity, partly through good-nature, hoping that his presence might be of some use.†
Chpt 2.7
- Therefore I cannot be held responsible for the numerous grammatical blunders in it.†
Chpt 2.10
- Therefore I must be a fool, I am useless, it is time I disappeared!†
Chpt 2.10
- He was painfully surprised, therefore, when three days passed with no word from her.†
Chpt 2.11
- She was esteemed and even loved by people of consequence in society, whose example in receiving her was therefore followed by others.†
Chpt 3.1
- The engagement was both happy and suitable, and was therefore approved in society.†
Chpt 3.1
- This is the truth, and I hold by it; but at the same time it is a phenomenon which has not been repeated at any other time or place; and therefore, though I hold to it as a fact, yet I recognize that it is an accidental phenomenon, and may likely enough pass away.†
Chpt 3.1
- "I have not seen all kinds of liberals, and cannot, therefore, set myself up as a judge," said Alexandra, "but I have heard all you have said with indignation.†
Chpt 3.1
- I have no sense of proportion, I know; my words and gestures do not express my ideas—they are a humiliation and abasement of the ideas, and therefore, I have no right—and I am too sensitive.†
Chpt 3.2
- But you'll admit what a riddle it must have been for us when that calm, cold, little spitfire, Aglaya—(for she stood up to her mother and answered her questions with inexpressible contempt, and mine still more so, because, like a fool, I thought it my duty to assert myself as head of the family)—when Aglaya stood up of a sudden and informed us that 'that madwoman' (strangely enough, she used exactly the same expression as you did) 'has taken it into her head to marry me to Prince Lef Nicolaievitch, and therefore is doing her best to choke Evgenie Pavlovitch off, and rid the house of him.'†
Chpt 3.3
- She is enjoying herself like a child, at your expense, and therefore, since she is a child, don't be angry with her, and don't think anything of it.†
Chpt 3.3
- I therefore write the words, and blush for your simple character.†
Chpt 3.3
- He will take no notice of Rogojin and myself, and, therefore, you are the only one left to account for.†
Chpt 3.3
- And yet she had this little note in her hand, therefore she must have known that I was sitting there.†
Chpt 3.3
- I don't love you, Lef Nicolaievitch, and, therefore, what would be the use of my coming to see you?†
Chpt 3.3
- I would have been guilty of suspecting you all the same—and you would have intended the murder all the same; therefore we should have been mutually guilty in any case.†
Chpt 3.3
- Besides, a Catholic monk is by nature excessively curious; it would be quite easy therefore to entice him into a wood, or some secret place, on false pretences, and there to deal with him as said.†
Chpt 3.4
- The sin, lessened on the one hand, would therefore be increased on the other, in quantity, not in quality.†
Chpt 3.4
- As for myself, a man of the late nineteenth century, I, of course, should reason differently; I say so plainly, and therefore you need not jeer at me nor mock me, gentlemen.†
Chpt 3.4
- You may add that I have surely enough to think of, on my own account, without him; and therefore it is all the more surprising that I cannot tear my eyes and thoughts away from his detestable physiognomy.†
Chpt 3.4
- If this 'Explanation' gets into anybody's hands, and they have patience to read it through, they may consider me a madman, or a schoolboy, or, more likely, a man condemned to die, who thought it only natural to conclude that all men, excepting himself, esteem life far too lightly, live it far too carelessly and lazily, and are, therefore, one and all, unworthy of it.†
Chpt 3.5
- But suddenly he fell upon me almost with fury; I had had no time to mutter more than a couple of words; but he had doubtless observed that I was decently dressed and, therefore, took deep offence because I had dared enter his den so unceremoniously, and spy out the squalor and untidiness of it.†
Chpt 3.6
- But though I do not recognize any jurisdiction over myself, still I know that I shall be judged, when I am nothing but a voiceless lump of clay; therefore I do not wish to go before I have left a word of reply—the reply of a free man—not one forced to justify himself—oh no!†
Chpt 3.7
- There was nothing to fear, therefore, at home.†
Chpt 3.7
- When, therefore, she was bound to talk, especially at such delicate moments as this, she invariably did so with an air of haughty defiance.†
Chpt 3.8
- I don't want to blush before Prince S. or Evgenie Pavlovitch, or anyone, and therefore I have chosen you.†
Chpt 3.8
- But I know for CERTAIN, that if she married me it would be her ruin; I know this and therefore I leave her alone.†
Chpt 3.8
- But one thing I am sure of, if it be a theft, it was committed, not in the evening when we were all together, but either at night or early in the morning; therefore, by one of those who slept here.†
Chpt 3.9
- Therefore, without entering into any more serious examination of the question, I will content myself with remarking that in real life typical characters are "watered down," so to speak; and all these Dandins and Podkoleosins actually exist among us every day, but in a diluted form.†
Chpt 4.1
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)