I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?