"You tell me I am not an original person.  Observe, dear prince, that nothing offends a man of our day and our race more than to tell him that he is not an original person, that he is weak-willed, has no particular talents and is an ordinary person.  You haven’t even given me credit for being a first-rate scoundrel, and you know I was ready to annihilate you for it just now."

Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Idiot