... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.

Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then.

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

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

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