"Be not comforted. Consolation is not what you need. Weep and be not consoled, but weep.
But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter tears will be only tears of tender sorrow that purifies the heart and delivers it from sin.
Love such a treasure that it can redeem not only your own sins but the sins of others."

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Father Zosima in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. 

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