Alyosha looked at him in silence.“I thought that going away from here I have you at least,” Ivan said suddenly, with unexpected feeling; “but now I see that there is no place for me even in your heart, my dear hermit. The formula, ‘all is lawful,’ I won't renounce—will you renounce me for that, yes?”Alyosha got up, went to him and softly kissed him on the lips.“That's plagiarism,” cried Ivan, highly delighted.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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