Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание Pryestupleniye i nakazaniye) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. This was first published in the Russian literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866.<1> It was later published in... read more
"Crime and Punishment" is one of the greatest and most readable novels ever written. And I read this book before.we follow his agonised efforts to probe and confront both his own motives for, and the consequences of, his crime.I have to admit that this is a novel without mystery for the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
“"Why am I to be pitied, you say? Yes! There's nothing to pity me for! I ought to be crucified, crucified on a cross, not pitied! Crucify me, oh judge, crucify me but pity me?"”Rodion Raskolnikov
“"They say it is necessary for me to suffer! What's the object of these senseless sufferings? Shall I know any better what they are for, when I am crushed by hardships and idiocy, and weak as an old man after twenty years' penal servitude?"”Rodion Raskolnikov
“Why am I going there now? Am I capable of that? Is that serious? It is not serious at all. It's simply a fantasy to amuse myself; a plaything! Yes, maybe it is a plaything.”
“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or think, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”
“I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.”
“A special little theory come in too - a theory of sort - dividing mankind, you see, into material and superior persons, that is persons to whom the law does not apply owing to their superiority, who make laws for the rest of mankind, the material, that is.”
“Extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary”
“Why do you demand a heroism of me that you may not even have in yourself?”Avdotya Romanovna
Pain and suffering are inevitable for persons of broad awareness and depth of heart.Highlighted by 6 Kindle customers
‘What if man – the whole human race in general, I mean – isn't really a villain at all? If that's true, it means that all the rest is just a load of superstition, just a lot of fears that have been put into people's heads, and there are no limits, and that's how it's meant to be!…’Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
And the wise and the learned will raise up their voices, saying: “Lord! Why dost thou receive them?” And he will say unto them: “Because they none of them ever believed themselves worthy of it…”Highlighted by 5 Kindle customers
‘The whole point of his article is that the human race is divided into the “ordinary” and the “extraordinary”. The ordinary must live in obedience and do not have the right to break the law, because, well, because they're ordinary, you see. The extraordinary, on the other hand, have the right to commit all sorts of crimes and break the law in all sorts of ways precisely because they're extraordinary. That's more or less what you wrote, isn't it, if I'm not mistaken?’Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
People have grown accustomed to having everything ready-made for them, they're used to depending on the guidance of others, having everything chewed up for them first.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
Everyone must look out for himself, and the best time is had by those who're best able to deceive themselves.Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
But there was something very strange about him; his gaze displayed an enthusiasm that was positively luminous, and said that here there were most likely both sense and intelligence; but at the same time there was a flicker of something akin to madness.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
All night a black serpent of wounded self-esteem had eaten at his heart.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
I agree that ghosts are only seen by people who are ill; but I mean, that only proves that ghosts can only be perceived by people who are ill – not that they don't exist.’Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Those of the first category are always the lords of the present, while those of the second category are the lords of the future. The first conserve the world and increase its population; the second move the world and lead it towards a goal.Highlighted by 3 Kindle customers
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Epilogue
Preceded by In Cold Blood, and followed by The Scarlet Letter.
Preceded by Artemis Fowl, and followed by Noughts & Crosses.
Preceded by Brideshead Revisited, and followed by The Grapes of Wrath.
Preceded by To the Lighthouse, and followed by The Sound and the Fury.
Preceded by Romeo and Juliet, and followed by The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Preceded by The Idiot, and followed by The Moonstone.
Preceded by The Name of the Rose, and followed by Eye of the Needle.
Preceded by The Giving Tree, and followed by The Client.
Preceded by Seek, and followed by Steppenwolf.
Preceded by The Giving Tree, and followed by Dracula.
Preceded by The Pelican Brief, and followed by Where the Sidewalk Ends.
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