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Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (Ganya)
Lebedev is a comic character, a clerk who prides himself on knowing all the society gossip. Even in the midst of tragic things that happen to him, such as the death of his wife, he maintains a silly manner and a habit of drinking excessively. However, he also has some profound insights into certain philosophical issues, such as socioeconomic inequality and capital punishment.
Lukyan Timofeevich Lebedev Quotes in The Idiot
The The Idiot quotes below are all either spoken by Lukyan Timofeevich Lebedev or refer to Lukyan Timofeevich Lebedev. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Part Two, Chapter Seven
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“Nihilists are still sometimes knowledgeable people, even learned ones, but these have gone further, ma’am, because first of all they’re practical. This is essentially a sort of consequence of nihilism, though not in a direct way, but by hearsay and indirectly, and they don’t announce themselves in some sort of little newspaper article, but directly in practice, ma’am; it’s no longer a matter, for instance, of the meaninglessness of some Pushkin or other, or, for instance, the necessity of dividing Russia up into parts; no, ma’am, it’s now considered a man’s right, if he wants something very much, not to stop at any obstacle, even if he has to do in eight persons to that end.”
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Lukyan Timofeevich Lebedev Quotes in The Idiot
The The Idiot quotes below are all either spoken by Lukyan Timofeevich Lebedev or refer to Lukyan Timofeevich Lebedev. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Part Two, Chapter Seven
Quotes
“Nihilists are still sometimes knowledgeable people, even learned ones, but these have gone further, ma’am, because first of all they’re practical. This is essentially a sort of consequence of nihilism, though not in a direct way, but by hearsay and indirectly, and they don’t announce themselves in some sort of little newspaper article, but directly in practice, ma’am; it’s no longer a matter, for instance, of the meaninglessness of some Pushkin or other, or, for instance, the necessity of dividing Russia up into parts; no, ma’am, it’s now considered a man’s right, if he wants something very much, not to stop at any obstacle, even if he has to do in eight persons to that end.”
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