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The Brothers Karamazov

His splendid estate lay on the outskirts of our little town and bordered on the lands of our famous monastery, with which Pyotr Alexandrovitch began an endless lawsuit, almost as soon as he came into the estate, concerning the rights of fishing in the river or wood-cutting in the forest, I don't know exactly which.†
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I mention this incident particularly because this article penetrated into the famous monastery in our neighborhood, where the inmates, being particularly interested in the question of the ecclesiastical courts, were completely bewildered by it.†
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Yes, he had been for the last year in our monastery, and seemed willing to be cloistered there for the rest of his life.†
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He was simply an early lover of humanity, and that he adopted the monastic life was simply because at that time it struck him, so to say, as the ideal escape for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness to the light of love.†
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He suddenly took a thousand roubles to our monastery to pay for requiems for the soul of his wife; but not for the second, Alyosha's mother, the "crazy woman," but for the first, Adelaida Ivanovna, who used to thrash him.†
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Not long after visiting his mother's grave Alyosha suddenly announced that he wanted to enter the monastery, and that the monks were willing to receive him as a novice.†
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The old man knew that the elder Zossima, who was living in the monastery hermitage, had made a special impression upon his "gentle boy."†
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… Do you know that near one monastery there's a place outside the town where every baby knows there are none but 'the monks' wives' living, as they are called.†
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The monks in the monastery probably believe that there's a ceiling in hell, for instance.†
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Oh! no doubt, in the monastery he fully believed in miracles, but, to my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling-block to the realist.†
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Perhaps his memories of childhood brought back our monastery, to which his mother may have taken him to mass.†
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Brooding on these things he may have come to us perhaps only to see whether here he could sacrifice all or only "two roubles," and in the monastery he met this elder.†
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I must digress to explain what an "elder" is in Russian monasteries, and I am sorry that I do not feel very competent to do so.†
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Authorities on the subject assert that the institution of "elders" is of recent date, not more than a hundred years old in our monasteries, though in the orthodox East, especially in Sinai and Athos, it has existed over a thousand years.†
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But to this day it exists in few monasteries only, and has sometimes been almost persecuted as an innovation in Russia.†
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It flourished especially in the celebrated Kozelski Optin Monastery.†
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When and how it was introduced into our monastery I cannot say.†
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The question for our monastery was an important one, for it had not been distinguished by anything in particular till then: they had neither relics of saints, nor wonder-working ikons, nor glorious traditions, nor historical exploits.†
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The obligations due to an elder are not the ordinary "obedience" which has always existed in our Russian monasteries.†
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The story is told, for instance, that in the early days of Christianity one such novice, failing to fulfill some command laid upon him by his elder, left his monastery in Syria and went to Egypt.†
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That is why in many of our monasteries the institution was at first resisted almost to persecution.†
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Masses of the ignorant people as well as men of distinction flocked, for instance, to the elders of our monastery to confess their doubts, their sins, and their sufferings, and ask for counsel and admonition.†
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In the end, however, the institution of elders has been retained and is becoming established in Russian monasteries.†
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Though he wore the monastic dress it was voluntarily, not to be different from others.†
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There were, no doubt, up to the end of his life, among the monks some who hated and envied him, but they were few in number and they were silent, though among them were some of great dignity in the monastery, one, for instance, of the older monks distinguished for his strict keeping of fasts and vows of silence.†
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Some were almost fanatically devoted to him, and declared, though not quite aloud, that he was a saint, that there could be no doubt of it, and, seeing that his end was near, they anticipated miracles and great glory to the monastery in the immediate future from his relics.†
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The conviction that after his death the elder would bring extraordinary glory to the monastery was even stronger in Alyosha than in any one there, and, of late, a kind of deep flame of inner ecstasy burnt more and more strongly in his heart.†
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He was suddenly seized with the desire to see the monastery and the holy man.†
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As his lawsuit with the monastery still dragged on, he made it the pretext for seeing the Superior, in order to attempt to settle it amicably.†
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Influences from within the monastery were brought to bear on the elder, who of late had scarcely left his cell, and had been forced by illness to deny even his ordinary visitors.†
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An Unfortunate Gathering Chapter I. They Arrive At The Monastery It was a warm, bright day at the end of August.†
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The visitors left their carriage at the hotel, outside the precincts, and went to the gates of the monastery on foot.†
Chpt 2

Except Fyodor Pavlovitch, none of the party had ever seen the monastery, and Miuesov had probably not even been to church for thirty years.†
Chpt 2

But, except the church and the domestic buildings, though these too were ordinary enough, he found nothing of interest in the interior of the monastery.†
Chpt 2

It was strange that their arrival did not seem expected, and that they were not received with special honor, though one of them had recently made a donation of a thousand roubles, while another was a very wealthy and highly cultured landowner, upon whom all in the monastery were in a sense dependent, as a decision of the lawsuit might at any moment put their fishing rights in his hands.†
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Father Zossima lives in the hermitage, apart, four hundred paces from the monastery, the other side of the copse.†
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The honor and glory of the monastery, Zossima.†
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Miuesov observed aloud, while Maximov ran back to the monastery.†
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He was a divinity student, living under the protection of the monastery.†
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He alone in the monastery knew Rakitin's thoughts.†
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The mother was sitting on a chair by the side of her daughter's invalid carriage, and two paces from her stood an old monk, not one of our monastery, but a visitor from an obscure religious house in the far north.†
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I do not know how it may be now, but in my childhood I often happened to see and hear these "possessed" women in the villages and monasteries.†
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She came from a village only six versts from the monastery, and had been brought to him before.†
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I have been in three monasteries, but they told me, 'Go, Nastasya, go to them'—that is to you.†
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He announced that he had come from the far north, from Obdorsk, from Saint Sylvester, and was a member of a poor monastery, consisting of only ten monks.†
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After such an escapade how can I go to dinner, to gobble up the monastery's sauces?†
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When it is God's will to call me, leave the monastery.†
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As he hastened out of the hermitage precincts to reach the monastery in time to serve at the Father Superior's dinner, he felt a sudden pang at his heart, and stopped short.†
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He had told him not to weep, and to leave the monastery.†
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He hurried through the copse that divided the monastery from the hermitage, and unable to bear the burden of his thoughts, he gazed at the ancient pines beside the path.†
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(monastery)
the residence of a religious community