kenn!’s Reviews > Crime and Punishment > Status Update

“Pain and suffering are always obligatory for someone with broad intellect and deep feeling. Truly great individuals, it seems to me, must experience great sorrow in this world.”

“People are divided in general into two categories: the lower category (ordinary), that is, so to speak, material serving solely for the purpose of reproducing the species, and into people proper, that is, those who possess the gift or talent of uttering some new word in their milieu.”

“The living soul demands life; the living soul doesn’t heed the laws of mechanics; the living soul is suspect; the living soul is reactionary! Even if their social system can be made out of rubber and smells a bit like carrion— it’s still not alive, it has no will, its slavish, it doesn’t rebel! … The entire secret of life fits on two sheets of printer’s paper!”

“Just imagine, Rodya, what they were going on about yesterday: is there such a thing as crime or not?”

“Good-bye, Dunya,” cried Raskolnikov from the entrance hall. “Give me your hand!”
“I already did. Have you forgotten?” replied Dunya, affectionately and awkwardly turning to him.
“So what? Give me your hand again.”

He’s an intelligent man, but in order to act intelligently—intelligence alone is not enough.

“Oh, these vile characters! Their love is like hatred.”

KATERINA IVANOVAAA

The question remains: does the illness give birth to the crime itself, or is the crime, somehow by its own nature, always accompanied by something like an illness?”