Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men of action, for example, must, I believe, have great sadness on earth.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky Modern

Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov

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Crime and Punishment

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1866

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Strange & Unusual

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