Saying one thing by means of another, without a word of comparison: instead of saying that something is like another thing, one says that it is. The image transfers to the subject the qualities of the thing it is identified with.
In The Brothers Karamazov
sometimes it happens that he, perhaps, carries within himself the core of the whole, while the other people of his age, all of them, by some passing wind, for some reason have broken away from him for a time...
The "core of the whole" and the "passing wind" give body to the idea: the eccentric keeps the heart of an age, while the others are carried away from it by a force with no name and no owner.
Book I: The history of a family, the narrator, in the preface, about Alyosha
Because I am a Karamazov. Because, if I am going to fly into the abyss, it is headfirst, feet up, and I even am glad to fall in that humiliating position and I consider it, for me, beauty.
Book III: The sensualists, Mitya to Alyosha, in the garden
Here the devil wrestles with God, and the battlefield is the hearts of men.
Book III: The sensualists, Mitya to Alyosha, in the garden
Whoever has stepped on the lowest rung will, in any case, surely step on the highest as well.
Book III: The sensualists, Alyosha to Mitya, in the garden
I am hastening to return my entrance ticket [...] It is not God that I do not accept, Alyosha; I merely return the ticket to him, with the greatest respect.
Book V: Pro and Contra, Ivan to Alyosha, in the tavern
if the grain of wheat, falling into the earth, does not die, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Book VI: A Russian monk, Elder Zosima to Alyosha, on the last afternoon
mama [...] don't cry, life is a paradise, and we are all in paradise, only we do not want to know it, and if we did, tomorrow paradise would be in the whole world.
Book VI: A Russian monk, Markel to his mother, in Elder Zosima's account
"Someone visited my soul at that hour."
Book VII: Alyosha, Alyosha, later, on the night after the elder's death
in that self-love the devil himself incarnated, who slipped into the entire generation, the devil himself.
Book X: Ilyusha's death, Alyosha to Kolya, in the vestibule of the hut
capable of embracing all contraries and of contemplating at once both abysses, the abyss above us, of the highest ideals, and the abyss below us, of the lowest and most fetid fall
Book XII: A judicial error, the prosecutor Hippolyte Kirillovich, in the speech for the prosecution
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