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"The first thought that occurred to me was a Karamazov one. You know, brother, I was once bitten by a centipede, by the evil insect [...] What made her beautiful at that moment was that she was noble, while I was a scoundrel, that there she was in all the majesty of her generosity and sacrifice for her father, while I was a mere bedbug [... this thought of the centipede, gripped my heart so violently it almost bled"

"... all my life I've believed that I shall die, and that suddenly there will be nothing there, only 'burdock growing on a grave.'"

it may be that she fell in her girlhood, a prey to her surroundings, but she loved much, and even Christ forgave the woman who loved much

"And she torments me, torments me with love. It is not like before! Before she merely tormented me with her infernal curves, but now I have accepted the whole of her soul into my own and through her have myself become a human being!"

"I'm wild, Alyosha, I'm savage. If I tear off my finery I shall mutilate myself and my beauty, I shall burn my face and lay it open with a knife, I shall go and beg for alms. If I don't feel like it, I shan't go anywhere now or visit anyone, and if I want to I shall send back to Kuzma everything he's given me, including all his money, and shall go and work all my life as a daily drudge!"

"I am far too young, and have loved you far too intensely. I know that it would be better if I did not tell you that, that it would show more dignity on my part simply to leave your presence; that would be less insulting to you ... You have tormented me too consciously for me to be able to forgive you ..."