When reason fails, the devil helps!

Не рассудок, так бес!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Topic

Reason Bad decisions Decisions and choices

Speaker

Raskolnikov

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

Crime and Punishment

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. The Russian Messenger, 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, pt. 1, ch. 6.

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We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast. But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it’s one little room, like a bath house in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that’s all eternity is?

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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Crime and Punishment. The Russian Messenger, 1866, montly serial.

Current Citation

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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun. Edited by Susan Manning. Oxford UP, 2009.

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Always let your conscience be your guide.

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Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

William E. Gladstone

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Progress
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William E. Gladstone
Medium
Speech
Language
English
Time
1866 1860s 19th century
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Gladstone, William E. Speech in the House of Commons. 27 April 1866. Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Speech.

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Man is a creature that can get used to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

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Source
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Medium
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Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Записки из Мёртвого дома (Zapiski iz Myortvovo doma) [The House of the Dead]. Vremya, 1862, pt. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Memoirs from the House of the Dead, trans. Jessie Coulson. Oxford UP, 2008, pt. 1, ch. 1.