{"id":"01KFE0G1Z2NXJRP6PH4KVTKRMB","cid":"bafkreifq27fdjtnbglga6ztwfre4ezko33mok5md6eqhztfjgyr2hkxxo4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreigvrloj4awexxyt35aesqzjgqfrxkkq54aiabzcqciecmsuonivwm","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0402.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071936-blzuxgl9duv","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0402.jpg","page_number":402,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":207737,"text":"394 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT\nStupid that if others are stupid — and I know they are — yet I\nwon't be wiser? Then I saw, Sonia, that if one waits for every\none to get wiser it will take too long. . . . Afterwards I under-\nstood that that would never come to pass, that men won't\nchange and that nobody can alter it and that it's not worth\nwasting effort over it. Yes, that's so. That's the law of their\nnature, Sonia, . . . that's so! . . . And I know now, Sonia, that\nwhoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them.\nAnyone who is greatly daring is right in their eyes. He who de-\nspises most things will be a lawgiver among them and he who\ndares most of all will be most in the right! So it has been till\nnow and so it will always be. A man must be blind not to see it!\"\nThough Raskolnikov looked at Sonia as he said this, he no\nlonger cared whether she understood or not. The fever had\ncomplete hold of him; he was in a sort of gloomy ecstasy (he\ncertainly had been too long without talking to anyone) . Sonia\nfelt that his gloomy creed had become his faith and code.\n\"I divined then, Sonia,\" he went on eagerly, \"that power is\nonly vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up.\nThere is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to\ndare! Then for the first time in my life an idea took shape in\nmy mind which no one had ever thought of before me, no one!\nI saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person\nliving in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it\nall and send it flying to the devil! I . . I wanted to have the\ndaring . . . and I killed her. I only wanted to have the daring,\nSonia! That was the whole cause of it!\"\n\"Oh hush, hush,\" cried Sonia, clasping her hands. \"You turned\naway from God and God has smitten you, has given you over to\nthe devil!\"\n\"Then, Sonia, when I used to lie there in the dark and all this\nbecame clear to me, was it a temptation of the devil, eh?\"\n\"Hush, don't laugh, blasphemer! You don't understand, you\ndon't understand! Oh God! He won't understand!\"\n\"Hush, Sonia! I am not laughing. I know myself that it was\nthe devil leading me. Hush, Sonia, hush!\" he repeated with\ngloomy insistence. \"I know it all, I have thought it all over\nand over and whispered it all over to myself, lying there in the\ndark. . . . I've argued it all over with myself, every point of it,\nand I know it all, all! And how sick, how sick I was then of","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.936Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.687Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:13.945Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}