Chapter 1-3
Chapter 4-6
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"The dog died like a dog!"
Dmitri says this about Smerdyakov's suicide. Page 661
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"But he's my cousin. My mother and his mother are sisters. Only he always begged me not to tell anyone here, because he was so ashamed of me."
Grushenka about Rakitin. Explains why Rakitin is always over at the home of Grushenka. Page 683
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"Worst of all the crazy old man was luring and seducing the object of his passion with the very three thousand that he regarded as his family money!"
Prosecutor justifies Dmitri's anger with Fyodor over the money and Grushenka. Page 703
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"He even shouted to the coachmen on the way; 'Do you know you're driving a murderer!"
Dmitri while on his spending spree to Mokroye. Page 716
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"He meets with nothing but cynical jeers, suspiciousness, and pettifoggery over the disputed money; all he hears daily 'over the cognac,' are talk and worldly precepts that make him sick at heart."
Dmitri's experience with Fyodor as a "father". Page 743
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"And then I remembered my happy youth, and a poor boy in the yard without any shoes, and my heart turned over, and I said: 'You are a grateful young man, for all your life you have remembered that pound of nuts I brought you in your childhood."
Dr. Herzenstube about Dmitri, which creates a sympathetic tone to the case. Page 673
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"Now I am condemned!"
Dmitri cries out this after Katya tells the story where Dmitri gave her financial favors. Page 680
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"There is an outlet for your stormy strength, your romantic character yearning for adventure."
Madame K to Dmitri when he goes around asking for money. Page 705
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"The catastrophe may come now, and of course we have not though out how to meet it, we have no time, and our head is throbbing, and we are drawn to her, but money... a man with money is a man everywhere."
Kirillovich's assumptions of what Dmitri was thinking while committing the crime. Page 718
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"Did anyone teach him any sense at all, has he been enlightened on learning, did anyone give him at least a little love in his childhood?"
Defense attorney on Dmitri's childhood. Page 742
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"Afterwards people delighted in telling, for example, how he had been able to "take down" all the witnesses for the prosecution, to throw them off as much as possible, and, above all, to cast a slight taint on their moral reputations..."
Quote about Fetyukovich and his talent in undermining witnesses in cross-examination. Page 663
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"If" he said to me, 'any one of the sons most resembles Fyodor Pavlovich in character, it is him, Ivan Fyodorovich!"
Prosecutor Ippolit Kirillovich says this when describing the brothers in his speech. Page 697
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"But instead of beating her, he stays there at her feet-that is the beginning of this love."
Referring to Dmitri and his love for Grushenka. Page 702
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"But this alone, that the witness testified incorrectly in her first testimony, gives us the right to conclude that her second testimony may also be incorrect."
Referring to Katerina and her false testimony to save Dmitri. Page 732
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"Yes, but Grigory saw the door open, therefore the defendant had certainly been in the house, and therefore he killed him."
Fetyukovich is taking a stab at the methods Kirillovich is using with regards to accusing Dmitri of the murder. If.. then... very mathematical. Page 736
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"Who could say which of them was to blame or calculate who owed what to whom, with all that muddled Karamazovism, in which no one could either define or understand himself?"
Rakitin's comment on Fyodor and Dmitri's feud over the inheritance money. Page 667
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" A murdered father, and they pretend to be frightened..They pull faces to each other. Liars! Everyone wants his father dead. Viper devours viper... If there were no parricide, they'd all get angry and go home in a foul temper... Circuses!"
Ivan says this after he tells the court of Smerdyakov's crime. Page 686
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"And now one such individual, from fear and bullying, becomes guilty and criminal in reality."
Prosecutor on Smerdyakov's reasoning, if any for assisting Dmitri in the murder. Page 708
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"In a man's most terrible moment, say when he is being taken to his execution, it is precisely such trifles that stick in his memory."
This quote is referring to Dmitri and his loss of memory about what material he made his amulet out of. Page 721
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"It is better to let ten who are guilty go, than to punish one who is innocent- do you hear, do you hear this majestic voice from the last century of our glorious history?"
Defense asserting that Dmitri should be fairly judged- not looked upon with prejudice. Page 747
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"He kept hitting me for loans, even in prison! A despicable Bernard and careerist, and he doesn't believe in God, he hoodwinked his Grace!"
Mitya says this about Rakitin after the defense lawyer asks about the reward Rakitin took from Grushenka for bringing Alyosha to her. Page 668
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"Oh he didn't understand, he didn't understand at all why I came running then, he can only imagine the basest reasons! He measured me by his own measure, he thought everyone was like him."
Katerina about Dmitri and his nature with money and honor. Page 690
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"He portrayed him as a feebleminded man with the rudiments of some vague education, who was confused by philosophical ideas that were too much for his mind, and frightened by certain modern-day teachings on duty and obligation."
Narrator's comments on how Ippolit Kirillovich portrays Smerdyakov in his speech. Page 707
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"But the pistol will reconcile everything, the pistol is the only way out, there is no other- and beyond- I do not know whether Karamazov thought at that moment of 'what lies beyond" or whether a Karamazov could think, in Hamlet fashion, of what lies beyond. No, gentlemen of the jury, they have their Hamlets, but so far we have only Karamazovs!"
Ippolit Kirillovich and his novel of a speech. Page 716
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"Fathers provoke not your children!"
Defense attorney on the crime of parricide. Page 744
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