I tell you, sir, it's very easy for Pyotr Stepanovich to live in the world, because he imagines a man and then lives with him the way he imagined him.

“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”

“So a man will sometimes go through half an hour of mortal terror with a brigand…”

“Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief—all that is some…”

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living …”