“Lord, let man dissolve in prayer! How would I be there underground without God? Rakitin’s lying: if God is driven from the earth, we’ll meet him underground! It’s impossible for a convict to be without God, even more impossible than for a non-convict!”
–Mitya, TBK. The real crime is cutting his whole impassioned, careening, caterwauling speech. This chapter (“A Hymn and a Secret” in the Pevear/Volonkhosky translation) didn’t strike me the first time I read Karamazov, but this time around it was intense and painful.