“If I seem happy to you… You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.”

Book II, ch. 4 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)

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