Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

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

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.