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“Some such beautiful, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man stores up many such memories to take into life, then he is saved for his whole life. And even if only one good memory remains with us in our hearts, that alone may serve some day for our salvation.”
- Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov

“There are souls that in their narrowness blame the whole world. But overwhelm such a soul with mercy, give it love, and it will curse what it has done, for there are so many germs of good in it.”
- Fetyukovich

“In a thousand torments—I am; writhing under torture—but I am. Locked up in a tower, but still I exist, I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, still I know it is. And the whole of life is there—in knowing that the sun is.”
- Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov

“No, life is full, there is life underground, too!…And besides, what is suffering? I’m not afraid of it, even if it’s numberless…And it seems to me there’s so much strength in me now that I can overcome everything, all sufferings, only in order to say and tell myself every moment: I am!”
- Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov

“You can revive and resurrect the frozen heart in this convict, you can look after him for years, and finally bring up from the cave into the light a soul that is lofty now, a suffering consciousness, you can revive an angel, resurrect a hero! And there are many of them, there are hundreds, and we’re all guilty for them!”
- Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov

“Even in there, in the mines, underground, you can find a human heart in the convict and murderer standing next to you, and you can be close to him, because there, too, it’s possible to live, and love, and suffer!“
- Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov

“Listen, Alyosha, don’t laugh, this is terribly important: is it possible for two different people to have one and the same dream?”
“It must be.”
- Liza Khokhlakov and Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov

“In fact you’re not like everyone else: you weren’t ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment. Do not be like everyone else; even if you are the only one left who is not like that, still do not be like that.”
- Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov to Kolya Krasotkin

“And what does it mean—ridiculous? What does it matter how many times a man is or seems to be ridiculous? Besides, nowadays almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
- Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov

“And I am with you, too, I won’t leave you now, I will go with you for the rest of my life,” the dear, deeply felt words of Grushenka came from somewhere near him. And his whole heart blazed up and turned towards some sort of light, and he wanted to live and live, to go on and on along some path, towards the new, beckoning light, and to hurry, hurry, right now, at once!