I will save you, if need be, in spite of yourself.

I will cure you of your torturing doubts, oh! without catechising you, without imposing any particular faith on you, but simply by allowing life to do its work, for life alone can give you back health and hope.

So I beg you, brother, in the name of our affection, come back here, come as often as you can to spend a day with us.

You will then see that when folks have allotted themselves a task and work together in unison, they escape excessive unhappiness.

A task of any kind--yes, that is what is wanted, together with some great passion and frank acceptance of life, so that it may be lived as it should be and loved." "But what would be the use of my living here ?" Pierre muttered bitterly.
"I've no task left me, and I no longer know how to love." "Well, I will give you a task, and as for love, that will soon be awakened by the breath of life.