Let me be sinful before everyone, but so that everyone will forgive me, and that is paradise. Am I not in paradise now?
It does happen sometimes that a person commits a villainy and praises himself for it, elevating his villainy to the level of a principle, and claiming that and the light of civilization are precisely...
Is this what is called remorse of conscience or repentance? I do not know, and I cannot tell to this day. Perhaps this remembrance even now contains something pleasurable for my passions. No--what is...
In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilty for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterm...
If you ever fall in love with some one, God give you happiness with her! I won't wish anything for her, for she will be happy with you. I know, I am a woman myself, so you must believe me when I tell...
If you can show a person logical proof that essentianlly he's got nothing to cry about, he'll stop crying. That seems clear. Don't you think he'd stop crying?'That would make life too easy, Raskolniko...
If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted.
I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.
I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that li...
I think everyone should love life above everything in the world.Love life more than the meaning of it?Certainly, love it, regardless of logic as you say, it must be regardless of logic, and it's only...
I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is usually the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively in...
I am X in an indeterminate equation.
He expressed unconditional agreement with the uselessness and absurdity of the word ‘fatherland’; he agreed with the idea that religion was harmful;33 but he loudly and firmly asserted that boots were...
For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it still follow the Christian ideal.
Convictions and the man--it seems they're two different things in many ways. Maybe in many ways I'm guilty before them!...We're all guilty, we're all guilty, and...if only we were all convinced of it!
But no, no, I am not to blame, Nastenka; I feel that, I know that, because my heart tells me I am right, for I cannot hurt you in any way, I cannot wound you! I was your friend, but I am still your fr...
But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that if you have the guillotine in the forefront, and with such glee, it's for the sole reason that cutting heads off is the easiest thing, and h...
But Ippolit Kirillovitch was encouraged; he had never been applauded before! He had been all his life unable to get a hearing, and now he suddenly had an opportunity of securing the ear of all Russia.
Brother, I’m not depressed and haven’t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people near me, and to be a human being among human beings, and...