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The ancient Greeks had two words for enemy.

I continued. I persisted. I endured.

The ascetic priest, Nietzsche says, is the greatest diverter of resentment ever invented.

Father Zossima is dying. He knows this. He uses what time remains to say something he has apparently been waiting his whole life to say:

Dmitri is waiting under a willow tree at the crossroads. He has a handkerchief. He has a shirt. He has braces. He's been thinking about how to twist them into a rope.

Katerina Ivanovna invites Grushenka to her apartment. She has decided to love her. She is going to demonstrate her magnanimity — she, the proud woman who was wronged, will embrace the woman who is competing for the same man. It's going to be beautiful. Katerina has already writte…

Kolya's plan is theatrical. He has kept the secret for a fortnight. He trained the dog to perform tricks. He named him Perezvon—"Slavonic name"—and kept him hidden from Smurov, who had guessed. He has been waiting for maximum effect. And when he finally arrives at Ilusha's bedsid…

"Father, don't cry, and when I die get a good boy, another one ... choose one of them all, a good one, call him Ilusha and love him instead of me."

"You know, Kolya, you will be very unhappy in your life," something made Alyosha say suddenly.

When Mitya Karamazov is driven away under escort, a young man named Kalganov runs out without his cap and takes Mitya's hand for a moment before the cart moves.

At the end of the interrogation, when the "Committal" has been read and Dmitri Karamazov is formally a prisoner, he makes a speech.

When Ivan gets into the carriage to leave Fyodor Pavlovitch's house, he tells his coachman: "I am going to Tchermashnya."

Father Ferapont never appears except as opposition. He is the other ascetic, the one who keeps to an even stricter rule than Zossima — irons under his gown, two pounds of bread every three days, complete silence, bare feet. He catches devils in doors. The Holy Spirit visits him a…

Zossima's older brother Markel was an atheist at seventeen. He refused the Lenten fast. "That's all silly twaddle, and there is no God." Then he got sick with consumption, and something changed.

Alyosha is in crisis. Zossima's body is decomposing faster than expected — a humiliation, a "sign from heaven" according to the hostile monks who had always resented the elder. There are no miracles. The "higher justice" Alyosha expected hasn't arrived. "Where is the finger of Pr…

The Mysterious Visitor confessed to Zossima that he had committed murder fourteen years earlier. He had carried it alone. The guilt compounded with his success — the more respected he became, the more intolerable it was. He was a generous man, a charitable man, but "how can I lov…

The Grand Inquisitor's key claim about the desert temptations: they weren't temptations. They were the complete blueprint for managing human beings.

The Grand Inquisitor finishes his argument and waits for an answer.

Ivan is not an atheist. That's the first thing to understand.

Ilusha was there.