# Crime and Punishment  ## Metadata - Author: [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] - Full Title: Crime and Punishment - Category: #books ## Highlights - We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ([Location 463](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=463)) - Do you understand, do you understand, my dear sir, what it means when there is no longer anywhere to go? ([Location 562](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=562)) - if one wants to know any man well, one must consider him gradually and carefully, so as not to fall into error and prejudice, which are very difficult to correct and smooth out later. ([Location 894](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=894)) - ‘words are not yet deeds,’ ([Location 913](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=913)) - And me? What, indeed, do you take me for? I don’t want your sacrifice, Dunechka, I don’t want it, mama! It won’t happen as long as I live, it won’t, it won’t! I don’t accept it!” ([Location 1060](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=1060)) - In a morbid condition, dreams are often distinguished by their remarkably graphic, vivid, and extremely lifelike quality. ([Location 1229](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=1229)) - Kill her and take her money, so that afterwards with its help you can devote yourself to the service of all mankind and the common cause: what do you think, wouldn’t thousands of good deeds make up for one tiny little crime? For one life, thousands of lives saved from decay and corruption. One death for hundreds of lives—it’s simple arithmetic! ([Location 1435](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=1435)) - almost any criminal, experiences at the moment of the crime a sort of failure of will and reason, which, on the contrary, are replaced by a phenomenal, childish thoughtlessness, just at the moment when reason and prudence are most necessary. ([Location 1531](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=1531)) - the question whether the disease generates the crime, or the crime somehow by its peculiar nature is always accompanied by something akin to disease, he did not yet feel able to resolve. ([Location 1535](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=1535)) - It seemed to him that at that moment he had cut himself off, as with scissors, from everyone and everything. ([Location 2281](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008QLVMTI&location=2281)) - Note: The sentence previous to this resolved his outer action, but it is this sentence that concludes his inner and outer experience. This was the main significant outcome.