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“What matters is life, nothing but life - its revelation, constant and eternal, while the discovery matters not at all! But what's the point of talking?”

“Yes, Prince, one must give you your due, you certainly know how to make good use of your... well, your illness (to put it politely); you've managed to offer your friendship and money in such a cunning way that it would now be impossible for a decent man to accept them under any circumstances. It's either very innocent or very cunning ... but only you know which.”

“Listen, Parfyon, you asked me a question just now. Here is my answer: the essence of religious feeling has nothing to do with any reasoning, or misdemeanours, or crimes, or atheism; it's something different, and it will always be different; it's not that, it's something the atheists will always avoid talking about, as they'll always be talking about something else.”

"I do not bargain."

“These Mr Know-alls are sometimes encountered, even rather frequently, at a certain level of society. They know everything; all the restless curiosity of their mind and faculties is irrepressibly aimed in one direction, because of the absence of any more important opinions or interests in life, as a contemporary thinker would say.”

"So that's what it is, is it? You've lost your confidence and think I'm indulging in gross flattery towards you; but have you really lived all that much? Are there really all that many things that you understand? You concocted a …, you're not a ... I mean, what sort of man do you suppose I think you are? I think you're… you'll live.
You ought to have had a change of air long ago - one can see that a mile off.”

“As he had been walking to Sonya's, he had felt that in her lay his only hope and salvation; he had intended to unload at least a portion of his torments, and now suddenly, when the whole of her heart had directed itself towards him, he knew and felt that he was now inexpressibly more unhappy than he had been earlier.”

“But I mean, I can't fathom Divine Providence... And why are you asking me a question that it's wrong to ask? Why such futile questions? How could that ever depend on my decision?
And who am I to set myself up as a judge of who should live and who should not?”

“She looked at him in total incomprehension. All she could see was that he was horribly, infinitely unhappy.”

Bye luzhin

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