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Tweets random Ivan Karamazov lines.
Using the Constance Garnett Translation of 'The Brothers Karamazov'. Manually managed since the update.

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Who is the murderer then, according to you?

[📚👺☕🖤 @ivanfyodorobot]

'... And to do so had gathered together all the wise men of the earth- rulers, chief priests, learned men, philosophers, poets- and had set them the task to invent three questions, such as would not only fit the occasion, but express in three words, three human phrases…'

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'And yet if there has ever been on earth a real stupendous miracle, it took place on that day, on the day of the three temptations.'

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Fool, do you suppose I should stand on ceremony with you? I am in good spirits now, though I've a pain in my forehead... And in the top of my head... Only please don't talk philosophy, as you did last time.

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But you've seen for yourself that she hasn't come.

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All right, all right. Talk about me later. Why do I keep on trembling? I can't speak properly.

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@velvetyparadox All right, all right. Talk about me later. Why do I keep on trembling? I can't speak properly.

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'And we shall take it upon ourselves, and they will adore us as their saviours who have taken on themselves their sins before God. And they will have no secrets from us.'

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An old man in the crowd, blind from childhood, cries out, 'O Lord, heal me and I shall see Thee!' and, as it were, scales fall from his eyes and the blind man sees Him. The crowd weeps and kisses the earth under His feet.

[📚👺☕🖤 @ivanfyodorobot]

Well, did you get your nose pulled?

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The old man longed for him to say something, however bitter and terrible. But He suddenly approached the old man in silence and softly kissed him on his bloodless aged lips. That was all his answer.

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But does it matter to us after all whether it was a mistake of identity or a wild fantasy? All that matters is that the old man should speak out, that he should speak openly of what he has thought in silence for ninety years.

[📚👺☕🖤 @ivanfyodorobot]

'We are told that the harlot who sits upon the beast, and holds in her hands the mystery, shall be put to shame, that the weak will rise up again, and will rend her royal purple and will strip naked her loathsome body.'

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In it lies a child of seven, the only daughter of a prominent citizen. The dead child lies hidden in flowers. 'He will raise your child,' the crowd shouts to the weeping mother.

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You see, Alyosha, perhaps it really may happen that if I live to that moment, or rise again to see it, I, too, perhaps, may cry aloud with the rest, looking at the mother embracing the child's torturer, 'Thou art just, O Lord!' but I don't want to cry aloud then.

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That's what he says, he, and he knows it. 'You are going to perform an act of heroic virtue, and you don't believe in virtue; that's what tortures you and makes you angry, that's why you are so vindictive.' He said that to me about me and he knows what he says.

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I've asked myself many times whether there is in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't, that is till I am thirty, and then I shall lose it of myself, I fancy.

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We shall see each other then in the world. We shall meet before I am thirty, when I shall begin to turn aside from the cup. Father doesn't want to turn aside from his cup till he is seventy, he dreams of hanging on to eighty in fact, so he says.

[📚👺☕🖤 @ivanfyodorobot]

But yet all his life he loved humanity, and suddenly his eyes were opened, and he saw that it is no great moral blessedness to attain perfection and freedom…