happiness will be the more secure, the happier Dounia is with him. And as for some defects of character, for some habits and even certain differences of opinion — which indeed are inevitable even in the happiest marriages — Dounia has said that, as regards all that, she relies on herself, that there is nothing to be uneasy about, and that she is ready to put up with a great deal, if only their future relationship can be an honourable and straightforward one.
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, The Brothers Karamazov and other
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
