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A character in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Yes, that's what it was! I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her.

— Raskolnikov (dialogue) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866), trans. Constance Garnett, Part V, Chapter IV

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.'

— Sonya (remembered by Raskolnikov) · Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866), trans. Constance Garnett, Part VI, Chapter VIII

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