The Brothers Karamazov

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Quotes from The Brothers Karamazov

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"To punish a criminal is to acknowledge his freedom."
Ivan Karamazov Justice
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"The cruel heart is incapable of experiencing beauty."
Dmitri Karamazov Beauty
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
Ivan Karamazov Truth
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"Freedom without love is the greatest slavery."
Ivan Karamazov Freedom
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"Money is the root of all earthly troubles."
Fyodor Karamazov Money
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"The timid heart is the greatest sufferer."
Dmitri Karamazov Fear
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"I love mankind, but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov Relationships
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"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."
Ivan Karamazov Philosophy
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"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage."
Ivan Karamazov Faith
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Dmitri Karamazov Beauty
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"Ignorance is the bliss of cowardice."
Ivan Karamazov Courage
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"I want to embrace life before it passes me by."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"We have all become atheists unconsciously."
Ivan Karamazov Faith
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"Youth is always right and age is always wrong."
Dmitri Karamazov Wisdom
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"I believe the unconscious dreams of every Russian are about beauty and justice."
Dmitri Karamazov Dreams
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"Rebellion and freedom are the highest pursuits of mankind."
Ivan Karamazov Freedom
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"I have a longing for life and I go on living in spite of logic."
Dmitri Karamazov Life
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"I dream of understanding at last some phenomenon of life."
Ivan Karamazov Knowledge
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"The absolute is unattainable, but we must strive for it."
Ivan Karamazov Philosophy
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"I am afraid I shall have to own up to being a riddle."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"Do not torment me by asking me to justify myself."
Ivan Karamazov Truth
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"I am tormented by my love of humanity."
Ivan Karamazov Relationships
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"The world will be saved by beauty."
Dmitri Karamazov Beauty
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"I want to forgive everyone and for everything to forgive me."
Dmitri Karamazov
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"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for."
Dmitri Karamazov Faith
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"Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."
Ivan Karamazov Wisdom
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"If there is no God, then everything is permitted."
Ivan Karamazov Faith
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"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
Ivan Karamazov Relationships
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"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
Dmitri Karamazov Beauty
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"I could never understand how one can love one's neighbors. It's one's enemies I find absolutely impossible to love."
Ivan Karamazov Love