"It's not that I don't accept God, Alyosha, I just most respectfully return him the ticket."

"That is rebellion," Alyosha said softly, dropping his eyes.

"Rebellion? I don't like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. "One cannot live by rebellion, and I want to live."

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (p. 245, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky), ISBN 978-0-374-52837-9