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Crime and Punishment (1866)
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Everything is in a man's own hands, and if he lets everything slip through his fingers, it is through sheer cowardice. That's an axiom.
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You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid—and I know they are—yet I won't be wiser?
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The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
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I wanted to murder, for my own satisfaction…At that moment I did not care a damn whether I would become the benefactor of someone, or would spend the rest of my life like a spider catching them all in my web and sucking the living juices out of them.
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He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.
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She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age.
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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.
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
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I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.
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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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Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
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"You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."
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Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.
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Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it…one must have the courage to dare.
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To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
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They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
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On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.
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Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
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Born:
November 11, 1821
Died:
February 9, 1881
(aged 59)
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