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Quotation from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart”
Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter V, trans. Constance Garnett (1914)
Raskolnikov aestheticizes suffering while still evading the moral truth of his crime.
Citation: "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart" — Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, Part III, Chapter V, trans. Constance Garnett (1914). (id crime-and-punishment-q1)
Portrait: Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vasily Perov, Public domain.
