Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.

To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.

The reasoning is classic in its clarity. If God does not exist, Kirilov is god. If God does not exist, Kirilov must kill himself. Kirilov must therefore kill himself to become god. That logic is absurd, but it is what is needed.