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"Brother Ivan is a sphinx, he says nothing, he forever says nothing, while I am tormented by the question of God, that alone torments me. For what if he does not exist? What if Rakitan is right, he is an artificial idea dreamed up by mankind? If he does not exist, man is the boss of the earth, of creation, magnificent-only, how will he be virtuous without God? That's the question, I think about it all the time."

"You see, before I did not have any of these doubts, but this was all concealed inside me. Perhaps it is precisely because unknown ideas were seething within me that I went drinking and getting into fights and behaving like a madman. I-I got into fights in order to quench them in myself, to calm them, constrain them."

"That’s why I see and then think, because of those tails, not at all because I’ve got a soul, and that I am some sort of image and likeness. All that is nonsense! Rakitin explained it all to me yesterday, brother, and it simply bowled me over. It’s magnificent, Alyosha, this science! A new man’s arising—that I understand.... And yet I am sorry to lose God! It’s chemistry, brother, chemistry!"

"'I said to him only just now, the Karamazov's are not scoundrels, but philosophers, because all real Russian people are philosophers but you, now that you've done some studying, are not a philosopher, you're a shit.' He laughed, in a nasty sort of way."

"'Well, Alexei, my head is for the chop.' He sat down on the bench and made Alyosha sit down beside him. 'Yes, your trial is tomorrow. I say, have you really so completely given up all hope, brother?' Alyosha said with shy emotion."

"As soon as Alyosha had gone, Lise unbolted the door, opened it a little, put her finger in the crack and slammed the door with all her might, pinching her finger. She looked intently at her blackened finger and at the blood that oozed from under the nail. Her lips were quivering and she kept whispering rapidly to herself: 'I am vile, vile, vile, vile!'"

"He gave Lysa a quick look, her features had grown almost menacing. 'Give it to him. See that you give it to him without fail!' She commanded him in a frenzy, shaking all over. 'Today, immediately. Otherwise I will poison myself, this is why I asked you to come here.' And quickly she slammed the door."

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"'Alyosha, please save me!' she said, suddenly darting up from her chair, rushed towards him and embraced him tightly in her arms. 'Save me!' she said, almost in a moan. 'Do you think I have ever told anyone else in the whole world what I've told you? You see, the truth, the truth, I'm going to kill myself. Everything is so loathsome to me, I do not want to live -- everything, everything is loathsome to me.'"

"'Do you feel no shame at destroying yourself?'
'I want to destroy myself.
There's a boy who live near here, he lay down under the rails, and let the train go by on top of him, lucky boy.'"

"'Well, it is the desire to crush something good, or as you said, set fire to it, that also happens.'
'I mean, I was not simply saying it. I'm going to do it.'
'I believe it.'
'Oh, I love you for saying that, I believe it. After all, you never, never lie. Perhaps you think that I've told you all this on purpose, in order to tease you.'
'No, I do not. Though, there is possibly a little of that desire too?'
'Yes,'"