Mitya on Self Reflection (from The Brother's Karamazov)

"I just keep wondering now how people can live and think nothing about these things"

(Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, p 593, line 9)

Mitya on Separation (from "The Brother's Karamazov")

"Oh, yes, we'll be in chains, and there will be no freedom, but then, in our great grief, we will arise once more into joy, without which it's not possible for man to live, or for God to be, for God gives joy, it's his prerogative, a great one... Lord, let man dissolve in prayer! How would I be there underground without god? Rakitin's lying: if God is driven from the earth, we'll meet him underground! It's impossible for a convict to be without god, even more impossible than for a non-convict! And then from the depths of the earth, we, the men underground, will start singing a tragic hymn to God, in whom there is joy! Hail to God and his joy! I love him!"