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"If you believe that you can forgive yourself and can attain to this forgiveness in this world, then you believe everything!" Tikhon exclaimed rapturously. "How is it that you say you do not believe in God?"

"Man has done nothing but invent God, so as to live without killing himself; in that lies the whole of world history up to now. I alone for the first time in world history did not want to invent God."

"It has always seemed to me that you would bring me to some place where there lives a huge, evil spider, as big as a man, and we would spend our whole life there looking at him and being afraid. That's how our mutual love would pass."

"From behind her ceaseless, genuine, and most complete hatred for you, love flashes every moment, and... madness... [...] What could one more splash of blood mean to you?"

"We say to you: go forward, progress, even shake - all that's old, that is, and has to be remade - but when need be, we will keep you within necessary limits, and save you from yourselves, for without us you will only set Russia tottering"

"I pray to everything. See, there's a spider crawling on the wall, I look and am thankful to it for crawling."

"It seems to me that if there were such a man, for example, as would seize a red-hot bar of iron and clutch it in his hand, with the purpose of measuring his strength of mind, and in the course of ten seconds would be overcoming the intolerable pain and would finally overcome it, this man, it seems to me, would endure something like what was experienced now, in these ten seconds, by Nikolai Vsevolodovich."

"Mysteries! Secrets! Where did we get so many mysteries and secrets all of a sudden?"

this might be the funniest book i've ever read. still getting major characters introduced past the 100-page mark and i'm here for it.

“One life passed, another began, then that passed and a third began, and there’s still no end. All the ends are cut off as if with a pair of scissors.”

"I will now set out to describe the somewhat amusing incident with which my chronicle really begins." all in your own good time, D.