All that’s just bureaucracy and sentimentality — all that’s good glue, but there’s something that’s even better: put four members of a circle up to bumping off a fifth, on the pretext that he’s going to inform, and the blood that’s been spilled will immediately bind them together in a single knot. They will become your slaves, they won’t dare to rebel or ask for an accounting. Ha, ha, ha!’ ‘However, you… however, you will have to pay for those words,’ Pyotr Stepanovich thought,
Well that was fucking prophetic by Stavrogin. I guess he somehow foretold the fate of this circle. it makes sense; he has so much control over three main figures of the circle.
Also, great [quote] monologue by Stavrogin.
