Book 5, Chapter 3 (The Brothers Make Friends)
Ivan's declaration: 'I want to live, and I do live, even if it be against logic.'
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From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The brilliant, tormented intellectual whose rebellion against God's world drives the novel's philosophical center.
Book 5, Chapter 4 (Rebellion)
Ivan's catalog of suffering children and his famous 'returning the ticket': 'It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return Him the ticket.'
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Ivan's hallucinatory dialogue with the devil, his psychological breakdown.
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