Status Updates From Воскресение (Russian Edition)

If one acknowledges but for a single hour that anything can be more important than love for one's fellowmen, even in some one exceptional case, any crime can be committed without a feeling of guilt.

She was a prostitute condemned to Siberia, and yet she had a conception of life which made it possible for her to be satisfied with herself, and even to pride herself on her position.

Book I, Chapter 44 is a short psychological sketch of Maslova