Цитата из книги Pale Fire (Владимир Набоков)
«KINBOTE: Tut-tut. Do you also deny that there are sins? SHADE: I can name only two: murder, and the deliberate infliction of pain. KINBOTE: Then a man spending his life in absolute solitude could not be a sinner? SHADE: He could torture animals. He could poison the springs on his island. He could denounce an innocent man in a posthumous manifesto. KINBOTE: And so the password is--? SHADE: Pity. KINBOTE: But who instilled it in us, John? Who is the Judge of life, and the Designer of death? SHADE: Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.»
