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Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Top 10 Best Quotes

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“When reason fails, the devil helps!”

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”

“The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”

“Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”

“Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.”

“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”

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265, suffering, intelligence, crime, punishment, raskolnikov, 263, intelligent-action, 329, sonia

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