Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Quotes from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky:
- Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
- To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
- We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
- It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
- When reason fails, the devil helps!
- A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.
- The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
- Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.
- Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
- People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.