Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself.

If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they themselves have brought us their freedom and obediently laid it at our feet. It is our doing, but is it what you wanted? This sort of freedom?' Again I don't understand', Alyosha interrupted, 'Is he being ironic? Is he laughing?' Not in the least. He precisely lays it to his and his colleagues' credit that they have finally overcome freedom, and have done so in order to make people happy.

...chance may do anything.

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

Be the sun and all will see you.

One circumstance tormented me then: Namely, that no one else was like me, and I was like no one else. I am only one, and they are all.