{"id":"01KFE0BETC0T8NQ6G25EWGCT0P","cid":"bafkreiaot4rxkqmrm54erxmarkj3ykm7nmil4wxuxzso6uo775yz6kue4e","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreiaig2qdwx7zrdxvcyvqmjxxv2cyji36q44bkont6vairqtf63onza","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0072.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768922919387-716lnmdebl2","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0072.jpg","page_number":72,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":194443,"text":"64 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nill-natured old woman in the balance of existence! No more\nthan the life of a louse, of a black beetle, less in fact because the\nold woman is doing harm. She is wearing out the lives of others;\nthe other day she bit Lizaveta's finger out of spite; it almost had\nto be amputated.\"\n\"Of course she does not deserve to live,\" remarked the oflScer,\n\"but there it is, it's nature.\"\n\"Oh, well, brother, but we have to correct and direct nature,\nand, but for that, we should drown in an oce^n of prejudice.\nBut for that, there would never have been a single great man.\nThey talk of duty, conscience — I don't want to say anything\nagainst duty and conscience; — but the point is what do we mean\nby them. Stay, I have another question to ask you. Listen!\"\n\"No, you stay, I'll ask you a question. Listen!\"\n\"Well?\"\n\"You are talking and speechifying away, but tell me, would\nyou kill the old woman yourself?\"\n\"Of course not! I was only arguing the justice of it. . . . It's\nnothing to do with me. . . .\"\n\"But I think, if you would not do it yourself, there's no jus-\ntice about it. . . . Let us have another game.\"\nRaskolnikov was violently agitated. Of course, it was all\nordinary youthful talk and thought, such as he had often heard\nbefore in different forms and on different themes. But why had\nhe happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very\nmoment when his own brain was just conceiving . . . the very\nsame ideas? And why, just at the moment when he had brought\naway the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped\nat once upon a conversation about her? This coincidence always\nseemed strange to him. This trivial talk in a tavern had an im-\nmence influence on him in his later action; as though there had\nreally been in it something preordained, some guiding hint. . . .\nOn returning from the Hay Market he flung himself on the\nsofa and sat for a whole hour without stirring. Meanwhile it got\ndark; he had no candle and, indeed, it did not occur to him to\nlight up. He could never recollect whether he had been thinking\nabout anything at that time. At last he was conscious of his\nformer fever and shivering, and he realised with relief that he","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:39.387Z","text_extracted_by":"pdf-processor","text_has_content":true,"text_source":"born_digital","uploaded":true},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KFCZZ05FKVDDMJJV3YE9Q4WH","peer_label":"crimepunishment00dostiala.pdf","peer_type":"file","predicate":"derived_from"},{"peer":"01KESYJX0Z6XE0HWTS5N3SDG0B","peer_label":"The Classics","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-20T15:28:42.074Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:28:43.213Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}