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Quotes from Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

1821–1881 Russia

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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

"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."

Crime and Punishment (1866)

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.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

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.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

Do a man dirt, yourself you hurt.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

If not reason, then the devil.

Crime and Punishment (1866)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.