Top Highlights

• Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. John 12:24
• What is notable about your Alexei Fyodorovich that you should choose him for your hero?
• The thing is that he does, perhaps, make a figure, but a figure of an indefinite, indeterminate sort.
• For not only is an odd man “not always” a particular and isolated case, but, on the contrary, it sometimes happens that it is precisely he, perhaps, who bears within himself the heart of the whole, while the other people of his epoch have all for some reason been torn away from it for a time by some kind of flooding wind.
• It is impossible for me to do without this first novel, or much in the second novel will be incomprehensible.