Crime and Punishment

"I was overcome by indescribable anguish."

"The truth is that there is no truth!"

"What have I done? I have killed a louse, a vile, loathsome louse."

"I feel that I might be able to love her still, but I feel a kind of hatred for her."

"Every one is talking of me, watching me. How unbearable it is."

"I wanted to murder the old woman and take her money without any further messing about."

"Man grows accustomed to everything, the scoundrel!"

"The more I live, the more I realize that I understand nothing."

"I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man."

"Humanity resides in our capacity for compassion"

"The law of nature is kill or be killed"

"We are all murderers in our hearts at some moment"

"Redemption begins with acknowledgment of guilt"

"I am the architect of my own damnation"

"The world is divided between the weak and the strong"

"The poor live in a different world than the rich"

"Suffering purifies the soul"

"I must confess to restore my humanity"

"The soul cannot rest without peace"

"Forgiveness is harder than punishment"

"A lie is more comfortable than the truth"

"Love conquers even the most hardened heart"

"The poor deserve compassion, not judgment"

"I have been broken like a cheap vase"

"Conscience is the bridge between us and redemption"

"A man may be base in a thousand ways but never so base as to despair"

"Money is the root of all evil"

"Nothing is more terrible than suffering for the innocent"

"All is permitted to the extraordinary man"

"Virtue is its own reward"