• Mankind is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

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The Brothers Karamazov

BOOK I

• As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose.
• "I want to live for immortality, and I will accept no other compromise." (Alyosha)
• "Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass taht he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and others." (Zossima)
• The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.