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Agafya Ivanovna
The old captain and father of two daughters, Varvara Nikolaevna and Nina Nikolaevna, and one son, Ilyusha. The captain is married to a “half-witted” woman named Arina Petrovna. Katerina Ivanovna sends Alexei to the captain, who lives near Dmitri, to give the old man two hundred roubles as compensation for Dmitri beating him up outside of a tavern in revenge for his participation in Fyodor Pavlovich’s scheme to convince Grushenka to take over Dmitri’s promissory notes. The captain refuses to challenge Dmitri to a duel, out of fear that, if he is killed, there will be no one to look after his family. The captain makes a show of rejecting Katerina Ivanovna’s money by throwing it down on the street and stomping on it; however, he ends up accepting the money, and later accepts her friendship and financial assistance when Ilyusha falls ill.
Captain Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov Quotes in The Brothers Karamazov
The The Brothers Karamazov quotes below are all either spoken by Captain Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov or refer to Captain Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Epilogue, Chapter 3
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“He was a nice boy, a kind and brave boy, he felt honor and his father’s bitter offense made him rise up. And so, first of all, let us remember him, gentlemen, all our lives. And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune—all the same, let us never forget how good we once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings […] You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory, especially a memory from childhood, from the parental home [….] If a man stores up many such memories to take into life, then he is saved for his whole life.”
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Captain Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov Quotes in The Brothers Karamazov
The The Brothers Karamazov quotes below are all either spoken by Captain Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov or refer to Captain Nikolai Ilyich Snegiryov. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Epilogue, Chapter 3
Quotes
“He was a nice boy, a kind and brave boy, he felt honor and his father’s bitter offense made him rise up. And so, first of all, let us remember him, gentlemen, all our lives. And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune—all the same, let us never forget how good we once felt here, all together, united by such good and kind feelings […] You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful afterwards in life, than some good memory, especially a memory from childhood, from the parental home [….] If a man stores up many such memories to take into life, then he is saved for his whole life.”
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