Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.