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A character in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

3 quotes spoken by or about Ivan Karamazov, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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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
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

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