But one or two generations of vice are essential now; monstrous, abject vice by which a man is transformed into a loathsome, cruel, egoistic reptile.
That's what we need! And what's more, a little 'fresh blood' that we may get accustomed to it.

Why are you laughing?
I am not contradicting myself.

I am only contradicting the philanthropists and Shigalovism, not myself! I am a scoundrel, not a socialist.

Ha ha ha! I'm only sorry there's no time.

I promised Karmazinov to begin in May, and to make an end by October.