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"Among the poor, envy and the frustration of needs are at present, dulled by drunkenness. But soon, in place of alcohol, it will be blood, upon which they grow intoxicated."

"It is true that there are, in the monkhood, also many parasites, lovers of the flesh, voluptuaries and brazen vagabonds; worldly men of progressive education, point to this: you are, they say, idlers, and useless members of society. Shameless beggars, you live upon the efforts of others."

"Dear mother, beloved droplet of my blood, in truth, each of us is guilty before the others for everyone, only people don't realize it."

"This strange little observation flashed, like an arrow, through Alyosha's sad mind, sad and sorrowful, at that moment."

"There's nothing more seductive for man than the freedom of his subconscious, there's nothing more tormenting for him either."

"For the sake of a universal bowing down, they've destroyed one another with the sword. They created gods and challenged one another: give up your gods and come worship ours, or else death to you and to your gods, and so it will be until the world's end, when even gods will vanish from the world."

"Ah, you mean the only sinless one, and his blood? No, I haven't forgotten about him. I have, on the contrary, been amazed at how long it has taken you to introduce him into the argument. For your kind usually wheel him out right at the start."

"And so I decline the offer of eternal harmony altogether. It is not worth one single small tear of even one tortured little child that beat its breast with its little fists, and prayed in its foul-smelling dog-hole with its unredeemed tears addressed to dear Father God."

"If everyone must suffer in order, with their suffering, to purchase eternal harmony, what do young children have to do with it? It's quite impossible to understand why they should suffer and why should they should have to purchase harmony with their sufferings? Why have they also ended up as raw material to be manure for someone else's future harmony?"

"You are to realize, novice, that preposterous things are all too necessary upon earth. The worst rests upon preposterous things, and indeed it's possible that without them, absolutely nothing would ever have come into existence. We know that which we know."

"The entire universe of knowledge is not worth the tears of that little child addressed 'dear father God.' I'll say nothing of the sufferings of grownups; they have eaten the apple and the devil with them, and the devil take them all but the children, the children..."

"There is a curious property: the love of torturing children, only children ... It's the very unprotected aspect of these creatures that temps the torturers, the angelic trustfulness of the child, which has nowhere to go, no one to turn to. This it is that excites the foul blood of the torturer."

"But after all it's only a horse. And God gave horses unto man that he might flog them."

frozen take

"A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. The tiger simply gnaws and tears, that's the only thing it knows. It would never enter into its head to nail people to fences by their ears and leave them like that all night. Even were it able to do such a thing."

"In order to love a person, it's necessary for him to be concealed from view. The moment he shows his face, love disappears."

"In my opinion, the people it is impossible to love are precisely those near to one, while one can really love only those who are far away."

giving effy stonem's 'Sometimes I think I was born backwards... The people I should love, I hate, and the people I hate...'

"There was a certain old sinner, who lived in the 18th century, who once pronounced that if there were no God, it would be necessary to invent it. And indeed, man has invented God. And the strange thing, the wonderful thing, is not that God really does exists, but than an idea like that, the idea of God's necessity, could find its way into the head of a savage and vicious animal such as man. So scared is it."

"'The little man,' I said to myself, 'knows how to stand his ground.' Observe, though I'm laughing now, I speak in seriousness. I mean, you do know how to stand your ground, don't you? I like such people, whatever the ground is that they're standing on, and even if they're dear little laddies like yourself. That expectant look of yours has finally lost all of its repugnance for me."

"I shall not, shall not grieve. I shall not, will not, don't intend to grieve."

"I'd have let myself be murdered in the womb in order not to issue into the world at all."

"Who in the world talks in rhyme? And if we all began talking in rhyme, even if it were the instruction of the authorities, would we ever get much said?"

he'd hate the mad hatter

"My elder once told me, people must be looked after in every respect, as though they were children, and some, as though they were patients in hospital."

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"The next day, I had a drop or two to drink, sir. I don't recall much, sir, sinner that I am. I swear it's my grief, sir."

"In all this muddle one might completely lose one's way, but Alyosha's heart could not tolerate the unknown, as the character of his love was forever active. A passive love was something which he was not capable."

same loverboy

"My mind is blanketed clear. It's hot inside and not much breath but no one sees me where I am. It's good not feeling pure."

"They would pass me hand to hand if I would go. I would not. Maybe next week maybe next time.
And swig of vodka pressing up my lips.
That burn me down. I cannot see their faces or hips that bounce ready for me.
I lie. I take my share of them the whole way and there are other girls here. Each one for herself. We don't look her in the eyes.
The lads are here for what we are. It makes me laugh."

"He was the first off. Worst off. I begin. Now I know full well what I can do. For me and for you.

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Handlebars dig in my back. He's all embarrassed I should know the fat spots on his thighs.

I have no eyes for that. No ears for any sound emit. I'm thinking counting ticking off.

The great work. It's my great work."

"In beginning so directly with this down to earth comment, Alyosha had no premeditated cunning. It is, however, out of the question for an adult person to begin in any other way, if he is to enter straight into the confidence of a child, and especially the whole group of children. It is in other words, necessary to begin in a serious and down to earth fashion, in such a way that one is on completely equal footing."

"Alyosha was never able to walk past young boys in indifference."

"'You're the only one with whom I've had some sort of kind moments; in otherwise, I'm a wicked man.'
'You're not a wicked man, but a corrupted one.' Alyosha smiled."