I was not afraid of caricaturing a grand idea by handling it because Stavrogin was listening to me....

Shan't I kiss your footprints when you've gone?
I can't tear you out of my heart, Nikolay Stavrogin!" "I'm sorry I can't feel affection for you, Shatov," Stavrogin replied coldly.
"I know you can't, and I know you are not lying.Listen.I can set it all right.

I can 'catch your hare' for you." Stavrogin did not speak.
"You're an atheist because you're a snob, a snob of the snobs.

You've lost the distinction between good and evil because you've lost touch with your own people.

A new generation is coming, straight from the heart of the people, and you will know nothing of it, neither you nor the Verhovenskys, father or son; nor I, for I'm a snob too--I, the son of your serf and lackey, Pashka....