Michael Weller. The adventures of major Zvyagin (№ 48861)

When the exuberant energy of youth concentrated in one point - penetrating power develops a terrible [...] Fanatics, sometimes reaching peaks belong to the guys, something a deprived nature: timid, weak, ugly, poor, their desire for self-assertion accepts a single direction in which they can outdo the others to compensate for their inferiority.