"Crime and Punishment"

Can murder be justified? Read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky, gain perspective on life's toughest challenges. The book will cause you to empathize with those on the fringes of society. Here are some of the memorable quotes from Crime and Punishment.

• To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.
  
  
• Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
  
  
• Why am I going there now? Am I capable of that? Is that serious? It is not serious at all. It's simply a fantasy to amuse myself; a plaything! Yes, maybe it is a plaything.
  
  
• Do a man dirt, yourself you hurt.
  
  
• We have to break with what must be broken with once and for all… and we have to take the suffering upon ourselves… Freedom and power -- power above all. Power over all the tumbling vermin and over all the ant-hill!
• Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
  
  
• For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering. I believe really great men must experience great sadness in the world.
  
  
• Seven years, only seven years! At the beginning of their happiness at some moments they were both ready to look on those seven years as though they were seven days. He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story – the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
  
  
• Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or think, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!