"Perhaps I am a pessimist, but you have agreed to forgive me. Let us agree beforehand, you need not believe me, but let me speak. Let me say what I have to say, and remember something of my words." The Brothers Karamazov

"But yet he talked himself of the broad Karamazov nature; he cried out about the two extremes which a Karamazov can contemplate at once. Karamazov is just such a two-sided nature, fluctuating between two extremes, that even when moved by the most violent craving for riotous gaiety, he can pull himself up, if something strikes him on the other side. And the other side is love- that new love which had flamed up in his heart." The Brothers Karamazov

"Oh, blind race of men who have no understanding! As soon as men have all of them denied God- and I believe that period analogous with geological periods, will come to pass- the old conception of the universe will fall of itself without cannibalism and whats more the old morality, and everything will begin anew." The Brothers Karamazov

"They suffer, of course... But then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it? It would be transformed into an endless church service; it would be holy, but tedious. But what about me? I suffer, but still I don't live. I am X in an indeterminate equation. I am a sort of phantom in life who has lost all beginning and end, and who has even forgotten his own name." The Brothers Karamazov

"And what is suffering? I am not afraid of it, even if it were beyond reckoning. I am not afraid of it now. I was afraid of it before." The Brothers Karamazov

"Abandoning himself entirely to ideas and to real life" The Brothers Karamazov

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