Raskolnikov Quotes

• He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Suffering, New Life

  "Crime and Punishment". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Pt. II, 1866.

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• Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, Punishment, May

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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• What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Thinking, Deeds, Tiny

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.61, Google Publishing

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• Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, 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!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Live Life, Thinking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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• Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Used, Scoundrels

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.24, Google Publishing

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Sad, Pain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.262, Google Publishing

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• When reason fails, the devil helps!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Inspirational, Devil, Helping

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

  Philip Roth

  Evidence, Sticky

  Philip Roth (1969). “Portnoy's complaint”, Random House Inc

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

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Broken, Suffering, Break

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.330, Google Publishing

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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.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Ideas, Numbers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.364, Modern Library

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• Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers testifies to a failure of imagination - the capacity to see into unfamiliar lives, motives, feelings - and this failure must, at least in part, be the failure of the teaching of literature in the schools.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Kings, Teaching, School

  "What Fools Have Never Heard of Cynthia Ozick?". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. July 16, 2016.

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• Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.

  Michael Cunningham

  Heart, Sorrow, Needs

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• A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by the presence in it of art. It is the presence of art in Crime and Punishment that moves us deeply rather than the story of Raskolnikov's crime.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Moving, Reading

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• Many things have been written, including by me, linking humor and pain. Mostly, in my case, the humor part keeps me sane. If I spent all my hours writing things like "Fatal Distraction," I'd become a brooding, erratic melancholic. I'd be Raskolnikov.

  Dave Barry

  Pain, Writing, Erratic

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