And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.
It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?
Love life more than the meaning of it?
Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!
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.
If there were no God, he would have to be invented.
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.