{"id":"01KFE0G1ZAFJ6Z07V793W0TCV0","cid":"bafkreiew7updcc4tqzmbgfsyimikelbwyh3aypwodn7em6pgplomtlluy4","type":"file","properties":{"cid":"bafkreifbubi5xti74e2rv6zzg2m34fqmnjimj3uedzjoreq25a3yt62kq4","content_type":"image/jpeg","filename":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0471.jpg","key":"pdf-page-1768923071976-4x1gscav6f","label":"crimepunishment00dostiala_page_0471.jpg","page_number":471,"pdf_type":"born_digital","size":202765,"text":"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 463\nmaterial and superior persons, that is persons to whom the law\ndoes not apply owing to their superiority, who make laws for the\nrest of mankind, the material, that is. It's all right as a theory,\ntine theorie comme une autre. Napoleon attracted him tremen-\ndously, that is, what affected him was that a great many men\nof genius have not hesitated at wrongdoing, but have over-\nstepped the law without thinking about it. He seems to have\nfancied that he was a genius too — that is, he was convinced\nof it for a time. He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering\nfrom the idea that he could make a theory, but was incapable\nof boldly overstepping the law, and so he is not a man of genius.\nAnd that's humiliating for a young man of any pride, in our\nday especially. . . .\"\n\"But remorse? You deny him any moral feeling then? Is\nhe like that?\"\n\"Ah, Avdotya Romanovna, everything is in a muddle now;\nnot that it was ever in very good order. Russians in general\nare broad in their ideas, Avdotya Romanovna, broad like their\nland and exceedingly disposed to the fantastic, the chaotic. But\nit's a misfortune to be broad without a special genius. Do you\nremember what a lot of talk we had together on this subject,\nsitting in the evenings on the terrace after supper. Why, you\nused to reproach me with breadth! Who knows, perhaps we\nwere talking at the very time when he was lying here thinking\nover his plan. There are no sacred traditions amongst us, espe-\ncially inthe educated class, Avdotya Romanovna. At the best\nsome one will make them up somehow for himself out of books\nor from some old chronicle. But those are for the most part the\nlearned and all old fogeys, so that it would be almost ill-bred\nin a man of society. You know my opinions in general, though.\nI never blame any one. I do nothing at all, I persevere in that.\nBut we've talked of this more than once before. I was so happy\nindeed as to interest you in my opinions. . . . You are very pale,\nAvdotya Romanovna.\"\n\"I know his theory. I read that article of his about men to\nwhom all is p>ermited. Razumihin brought it to me.\"\n\"Mr. Razumihin? Your brother's article? In a magazine?\nIs there such an article? I didn't know. It must be interesting.\nBut where are you going, Avdotya Romanovna?\"\n\"I want to see Sofya Semyonovna,\" Dounia articulated","text_extracted_at":"2026-01-20T15:31:11.976Z","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":"2026-01-20T15:31:12.809Z","ts":"2026-01-20T15:31:13.956Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFCZWTBNJH4WFMS8354919KY"}}