Crime and Punishment

"We are all broken vessels seeking wholeness."

"Truth is often more terrible than any lie."

"I understood then that redemption comes through suffering and love."

"A man may be intelligent and still lack wisdom."

"The poor are always with us, and we must learn to love them."

"Justice without mercy is cruelty."

"Fear paralyzes the will and destroys the mind."

"I felt as though I had become someone else entirely."

"The worst thing one can do is to abandon hope."

"We are all responsible for everyone and everything."

"I have discovered that it is not the criminal who is to be pitied, but the victim."

"To love someone means to see them as God intended them."

"The soul is healed by making others happy."

"Man is the measure of all things."

"I felt that everything was over and done with for me."

"Debauchery is not a sin, it is a beautiful thing."

"All suffering is inflicted by man, not by nature."

"The more one loves genuinely, the more one despairs."

"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before anything else, you may be sure he is a good man."

"I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her."

"I have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the most sacred things."

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults and fewer of your virtues."

"The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."

"I am not mad; I am perfectly sane. It is society that is mad."

"The meek shall inherit the earth"

"I cannot live without love"

"The extraordinary man has the right to commit crime"

"Forgiveness is the path to redemption"

"I wanted to step over all obstacles at once"

"Conscience is the voice of God within us"