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Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
— Father Zosima (dialogue) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), trans. Constance Garnett, Part I, Book II, Chapter II
It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.
— Ivan (dialogue) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), trans. Constance Garnett, Part II, Book V, Chapter IV
In Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provided for the people in the Hôtel de Ville of Paris in the reign of Louis XI. in honor of the birth of the dauphin.
— Ivan (dialogue) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), trans. Constance Garnett, Part II, Book V, Chapter V
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
— Father Zosima (his teachings, as written down by Alyosha) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), trans. Constance Garnett, Part II, Book VI, Chapter III
If there's no immortality of the soul, then there's no virtue, and everything is lawful.
— Rakitin, summarising Ivan (dialogue) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), trans. Constance Garnett, Part I, Book II, Chapter VII
And always so, all our lives hand in hand! Hurrah for Karamazov!
— Kolya Krasotkin (dialogue) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), trans. Constance Garnett, Epilogue, Chapter III

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