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Here we have a fantastic, gloomy case, a modern case, a situation of our times, when the human heart is clouded, when one hears cited the phrase that blood ‘refreshes,’ when peple preach a whole life of comfort. There are bookish dreams here, sir, there is a heart chafed by theories; we see here a resolve to take the first step, but a resolve of a certain kind— he resolved on it, but as if he were falling of a mountain or plunging down from a bell-tower, and then arrived at the crime as if he weren’t using his own legs.
— Crime and Punishment (456)
