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Crime and Punishment quotes

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“Be the sun and all will see you.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“When reason fails, the devil helps!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animate abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarise it and who caricature every cause they serve, however...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so in fact.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“so many unscrupulous people have got hold of the progressive cause of late and have so distorted in their own interests everything they touched, that the whole cause has been dragged in the mire.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“every man must have somewhere to turn...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“Trifles, trifles are what matter! Why, it's just such trifles that always ruin everything….” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“What’s the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“don’t be over-wise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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