The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue

“Love one another, fathers,”

he had understood something that until then he had been unwilling to understand.

‘I know, Nikitushka, ’ I’d say, ‘where else can he be if not with the Lord God, only he isn’t here, with us, Nikitushka, he isn’t sitting here with us like before!’

And so, turmoil, confusion, and unhappiness—these are the present lot of mankind, after you suffered so much for their freedom!

Assiduous reading in “the divine” certainly added to the pomposity of his physiognomy.

Too many riddles oppress man on earth.

So I, too, have hopes that though I doubted once, I’ll be forgiven if I shed tears of repentance.”

for Russian criminals still have faith.

Thus he possessed in himself, in his very nature, so to speak, artlessly and directly, the gift of awakening a special love for himself.

“Better that you enslave us, but feed us.”