“Living without books, I had unconsciously become absorbed in myself.”  (Dostoevsky) 

“God grant that he may learn to understand in time that whoso is minded to do as he himself wills will soon enough see the day when he will find he has done that which he had never willed.”  (Undset) 

“But now he tardily understood that then he must choose, not between God and this or that upon earth, not even his worldly life, but between God and himself.”  (Undset) 

“I don’t take into account those blue-eyed childish souls who believe that everybody is good and that all evil is the fault of the community.  If everyone were good, the community would be a paradise, but the vulgar souls spoil it.”  (Undset)