Character: Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov

Rarely where there are so many gloomy, harsh and strange influences on the soul of man as in Petersburg.

I agree that ghosts are just sick, but that only proves that ghosts are unable to appear except to the sick, not the fact that they don't exist.

... at the beginning of the acquaintance, as you know, there are always legkomyslennoe and dumber look wrongly't see clearly.

I floated the greatest and unshakable means to conquer women's hearts, a remedy that never cheat and that acts decisively on every single one, without exception. This tool is known - flattery. There is nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. If the directness only one-hundredth of fake notes, then there is immediately the dissonance of a scandal. If flattery even to the last notes false and then it is pleasant and is heard not without pleasure; even with the rough pleasure, but still pleasure. And however coarse the flattery, it certainly, at least, half of it seems true. And it's for all developments and walks of life. Even if they can seduce with flattery. And about ordinary people and say nothing.

But a sensible woman and a jealous woman are two very different things, and that's the trouble.

Everyone about the trades himself and say he lives, all who are better than ourselves will be able to inflate.

To impartially judge some people, it is necessary to renounce certain preconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary around us and the objects.

... do all of us, and quite often, nearly as bonkers, with only small difference is that "sick" a few more of our crazy, because here it is necessary to distinguish the line. And the harmonic man, that's really almost there; dozens, maybe many hundreds of thousands one is found, and then only in a rather weak copies...

You know, to what extent odurmanili can sometimes fall in love with a woman?

A decent man ought to miss.

Never recites in cases between former husband and wife or lover and mistress. There is always one area that is always around the world remains unknown and known only to them two.

And when the girl's heart will be sorry, then, of course, is for her the most dangerous. Here it will want and "save", and to reason with, and raise, and call for more noble purposes, and revive to new life and activity.

And indeed we have, in Russian society the best manners are those bits were.

Abroad I went, and I always feel sick sometimes. Not that, but dawn is engaged, the Bay of Naples, the sea, the look, and somehow sad. Just disgusting that it really is about something sad! No, the home is better: here, at least, all blame others and justify themselves.