Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin Quotes

“Lord, show me my path—I renounce that accursed... dream of mine.”

“A disgusting place—filthy, stinking and, what’s more, of doubtful character.

“Excuse me, I fancied so from your inquiry. I was once his guardian.... A very nice young man and advanced. I like to meet young people: one learns new things from them.”

“Of course, people do get carried away and make mistakes, but one must have indulgence; those mistakes are merely evidence of enthusiasm for the cause and of abnormal external environment.”

“Literature is taking a maturer form, many injurious prejudices have been rooted up and turned into ridicule....”

“I trust you had a favourable journey,”

He is the most depraved, and abjectly vicious specimen of that class of men.

I cannot let this pass considering the relationship and... the obligations existing between us.”

“I set your interest beside all that has hitherto been most precious in my life, what has made up the whole of my life, and here you are offended at my making too little account of you.”

“Love for the future partner of your life, for your husband, ought to outweigh your love for your brother,”