Notes From the Underground
precisely the type of man who is not only worthless and depraved but muddleheaded as well—one of those muddleheaded people who still handle their own little business deals quite skillfully, if nothing else.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
‘If there is no immortality of the soul, then there is no virtue, and therefore everything is permitted.’