Rodion Raskolnikov quotes
A character in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
6 quotes spoken by or about Rodion Raskolnikov, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
About Fyodor Dostoevsky
On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary. But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
Yes, that's what it was! I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her.
Go to the cross-roads, bow down to the people, kiss the earth, for you have sinned against it too, and say aloud to the whole world, 'I am a murderer.'
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