" "Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death," said Levin.

" It's true that it's high time I was dead; and that all this is nonsense.

It's the truth I'm telling you.

I do value my idea and my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet.