They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
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Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
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Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment--as well as the prison."
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Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen."
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Crime and Punishment by
Fyodor Dostoevsky