The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Without a firm idea of what he lives for, man will not consent to live and will sooner destroy himself than remain on earth,

“I am and I love.”

“What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people,”

and for some reason the most hateful thing was his curly hair.

God is only a hypothesis … but … I admit, he is necessary, for the sake of order … for the order of the world and so on … and if there were no God, he would have to be invented,”

It is usually so in life that when there are two opposites one must look for truth in the middle;

“Thou art angry, Jupiter, therefore thou art wrong,”