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ivan

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Brothers Karamazov

Ivan has said everything is permitted, and yet he cannot live it. He has a conscience he cannot account for. That is the abyss the devil represents.

Brothers Karamazov

On the Grand Inquisitor. Ivan does not deny God outright. He says that even if God exists, he will spit on Him.

Brothers Karamazov

On Ivan Karamazov, the first of a sequence on Dostoevsky's last novel. A man who has mastered method but remains aimless in the soul.