Dmitri Karamazov

"A genuine paraphrase of Dmitri's thoughts on passion and moral struggle"

"I am not mad; I am only unhappy"

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"

"I could not bear the sufferings of children"

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love"

"I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic"

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for"

"I want to embrace life, to taste everything"

"Can you really love humanity in general? I find I can love only particular people"

"If there is no God, then everything is permitted"

"The soul is healed by a thousand beautiful things"

"I believe in God, though I do not believe in His works"

"My friend, I love humanity, but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"

"The suffering of children cries out to heaven"

"I am a sensualist, but I am no coward"

"Measure me by my passions, not by my failures"

"There is something in the Russian soul that calls out for suffering"

"I cannot renounce my right to suffer"

"Without struggle, there is no progress"

"Every person secretly hopes that someone loves them completely, as they are"

"The truth is buried somewhere in the depths of our hearts"

"A man may know that he is a scoundrel, and yet be unable to help it"

"I am tortured by my passions, but I would not trade them away"

"The heart desires what the mind cannot comprehend"

"I thirst for active love, not love in dreams"

"There are moments when eternal questions seize the heart"

"Money is the measure of all things in our world, yet it measures nothing truly"

"A man may be noble and beautiful, yet be utterly wrecked"

"I am weak before beauty—it is my ruin"

"The impossible is possible if we but believe it"