Is there in all the world a being that could forgive and have the right to forgive?  I do not want harmony, out of a love for mankind I do not want it.  I want rather to be left with sufferings that are unavenged.  Let me rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unassuaged indignation, even though I am not right.  And in any case, harmony has been overestimated in value, we really don't have the money to pay so much to get in.  And so I hasten to return my entry ticket.  And if I am at all an honest man, I am obliged to return it as soon as possible.  That is what I am doing.  It isn't God I don't accept, Alyosha, it's just his ticket that I most respectfully return to him.

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