Oh, Karamazov, I am profoundly unhappy. I sometimes fancy all sorts of things, that every one is laughing at me, the whole world, and then I feel ready to overturn the whole order of things.

“what gets me, Varinka, is not really the lack of money but all those little tro…”

“The temperament reflects everything like a mirror! Gaze into it and admire what…”

“I do not wish you much happiness--it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble …”

“We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance …”