Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again.

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.