What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

I utter what you would not dare think

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.