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for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)
- Therefore,' said the saint, 'thou, too, O mother, rejoice and weep not, for thy little son is with the Lord in the fellowship of the angels.'Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (26% in)
- And only at last they learnt that this holy man had broken his vow of obedience and left his elder, and, therefore, could not be forgiven without the elder's absolution in spite of his great deeds.Book 1 — The History Of A Family (81% in)
- Therefore you too, mother, know that your little one is surely before the throne of God, is rejoicing and happy, and praying to God for you, and therefore weep not, but rejoice.Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (26% in)
- Therefore you too, mother, know that your little one is surely before the throne of God, is rejoicing and happy, and praying to God for you, and therefore weep not, but rejoice.Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (26% in)
- The Christian Church entering into the State could, of course, surrender no part of its fundamental principles—the rock on which it stands—and could pursue no other aims than those which have been ordained and revealed by God Himself, and among them that of drawing the whole world, and therefore the ancient pagan State itself, into the Church.Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (48% in)
- The Church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment is the only one that contains the truth, and therefore cannot practically and morally be united to any other judgment even as a temporary compromise.Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (53% in)
- And therefore, recognizing that he had been to blame, he felt sincere regret and shame, and begged me, and his son Ivan Fyodorovitch, to convey to you his apologies and regrets.Book 2 — An Unfortunate Gathering (90% in)
- And, therefore, how should I be particularly to blame if not seeing my advantage or reward there or here, I should, at least, save my skin.Book 3 — The Sensualists (59% in)
- "I've been teaching you so many years, and therefore I've been talking aloud so many years, that I've got into the habit of talking, and so much so that it's almost more difficult for me to hold my tongue than to talk, even now, in spite of my weakness, dear Fathers and brothers," he jested, looking with emotion at the group round him.Book 4 — Lacerations (1% in)
- I don't know how to explain it, but I see that you are absolutely genuine and, therefore, you are right."Book 4 — Lacerations (54% in)
- And therefore I tell you that I accept God simply.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (31% in)
- 'All has been given by Thee to the Pope,' they say, 'and all, therefore, is still in the Pope's hands, and there is no need for Thee to come now at all.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (54% in)
- Dost Thou know that the ages will pass, and humanity will proclaim by the lips of their sages that there is no crime, and therefore no sin; there is only hunger?Book 5 — Pro And Contra (58% in)
- And so, convinced of this, he sees that he must follow the counsel of the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction, and therefore accept lying and deception, and lead men consciously to death and destruction, and yet deceive them all the way so that they may not notice where they are being led, that the poor blind creatures may at least on the way think themselves happy.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (72% in)
- And therefore the idea of the service of humanity, of brotherly love and the solidarity of mankind, is more and more dying out in the world, and indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (74% in)
- Of the pride of Satan what I think is this: it is hard for us on earth to comprehend it, and therefore it is so easy to fall into error and to share it, even imagining that we are doing something grand and fine.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (90% in)
- He did not keep the fasts according to the rule and therefore the sign has come.Book 7 — Alyosha (25% in)
- Oh, I've behaved inhumanly, dishonorably to her, but I fell in love here with another woman .... a woman whom you, madam, perhaps, despise, for you know everything already, but whom I cannot leave on any account, and therefore that three thousand now—"Book 8 — Mitya (30% in)
- Pyotr Ilyitch persisted in returning to this point, and though he found out nothing conclusive, yet he carried away a conviction that Dmitri Fyodorovitch could have gone nowhere but to his father's house, and that therefore something must have happened there.Book 9 — The Preliminary Investigation (1% in)
- But as he gave his evidence it was written down, and therefore they had continually to pull him up.Book 9 — The Preliminary Investigation (36% in)
- The prosecutor could only draw one conclusion: that the man had jumped back "at such a moment and in such excitement simply with the object of ascertaining whether the only witness of his crime were dead; that he must therefore have been a man of great strength, coolness, decision and foresight even at such a moment," .... and so on.Book 9 — The Preliminary Investigation (49% in)
- That must be done in your presence and therefore—Book 9 — The Preliminary Investigation (81% in)
- I was somewhat surprised just now to hear the highly talented prosecutor declare of himself—of himself, observe—that but for that envelope, but for its being left on the floor, no one in the world would have known of the existence of that envelope and the notes in it, and therefore of the prisoner's having stolen it.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (74% in)
- So he had been all the time in company and therefore could not have divided the three thousand in half and hidden half in the town.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (76% in)
- Because his father has been found murdered, because a witness saw the prisoner running out of the garden with a weapon in his hand, and was knocked down by him: therefore, we are told, everything was done as he had planned in writing, and the letter was not 'absurd,' but 'fatal.'Book 12 — A Judicial Error (81% in)
- Yes, but Grigory saw the door open and so the prisoner certainly was in the house, therefore he killed him.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (81% in)
- The conventional answer to this question is: 'He begot you, and you are his flesh and blood, and therefore you are bound to love him.'Book 12 — A Judicial Error (91% in)
- He only touched again, lightly and ironically, on "romancing" and "psychology," and in an appropriate place quoted, "Jupiter, you are angry, therefore you are wrong," which provoked a burst of approving laughter in the audience, for Ippolit Kirillovitch was by no means like Jupiter.Book 12 — A Judicial Error (96% in)
There are no more uses of "therefore" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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