The Brothers Karamazov Quotes

“But, as often happens, a crime committed with extraordinary audacity is more successful than others.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet, tender joy.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naïve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:respect