If I could have any character from the world of fiction come to life and be my friend, who would I pick? I don't read a lot of fiction but I was very taken by the character in Crime and Punishment, Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, who said:
Probably not an easy person to hang with but I felt close to him when I read it.
Quote:"What do you think?" shouted Razumikhin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird. Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped."
Probably not an easy person to hang with but I felt close to him when I read it.
