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Quotation from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky (spoken by Prince Myshkin)

The Idiot, Part I, Chapter II, trans. Constance Garnett

Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky

Myshkin, in General Epanchin's anteroom, tells the footman about the execution he saw in Lyons.

Citation: "To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself." — Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Part I, Chapter II, trans. Constance Garnett. (id the-idiot-q1)

Portrait: Portrait of Fedor Dostoyevsky, Vasily Perov, Public domain.

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