“ My confessor? ... Neither he, nor anyone else, God is my confessor.”
“A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.”
“«"The trickster", the Mother Confessor said. "I told you that was our name for him"»”
“I dream of an ideal confessor to tell everything to, spill it all: I dream of a blasé saint.”
“Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.”
“...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ”