I utter what you would not dare think

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

They were like two enemies in love with one another.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.