Crime and Punishment

"I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity."

[Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment]

"Good God!" he cried, "can it be, can it be, that I shall really take an axe, that I shall strike her on the head, split her skull open... that I shall tread in the sticky warm blood, blood... with the axe... Good God, can it be?"

[Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment]