The Brothers Karamazov

"A heart that has loved deeply bears the scars of its devotion"

"A lie spoken with conviction is more dangerous than a truth spoken in doubt"

"Guilt consumes the soul more surely than any earthly punishment"

"A question asked in youth echoes through a lifetime"

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

"The heart knows its own secrets"

"I am not rebelling against my maker; I am only not accepting His creation"

"Conscience is a phantom from within us"

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"

"I am a dreamer and I like to dream awake"

"The world will be saved by beauty"

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for"

"The suffering of children is the most terrible argument against the existence of a Creator"

"I want to love actual life, I am not in love with it"

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

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

"The Devil is bound to take interest in humanity since God is always looking the other way"

"I cannot understand how one can love one's neighbors; it seems to me that one can love only what is far away"

"I love life more than I love the meaning of life"

"The law of Christ says: 'Love thyself,' yet I am tormented by hate of myself"

"To be conscious is to be in anguish"

"I feel as though I were in a madhouse and sometimes, indeed, I think I am mad myself"

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

"True love is a holy thing and should be treated with reverence"

"Money is coined liberty, and you cannot deny that it is a very useful thing in the world"

"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish"

"If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and everything is lawful"

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular"

"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him; he has created him in his own image and likeness"

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