Robert Musil. The man without qualities (№ 430900)

An impractical person is always unreliable, and in relationships with people one can expect all sorts of surprises from him. And besides, today it is still very far from being consistent. It is quite possible, for example, that a crime harming another will seem to him to be just a social miscalculation, the culprit of which is not the criminal, but the structure of society. It is unlikely, however, that the slap in the face that he will receive will seem to him a shame of society.