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Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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You Won't Run Away, Rodyon Romanitch

If i run away, asked raskolnikov with a strange grin, you won't a peasant would run. You'll run away and come back of your own accord. But if i have you taken into custody, well, give it a month or two, maybe three, and mark my words, you'll come forward yourself. And i expect you'll be amazed at how it all happens. I even think you'll end up wanting to accept your suffering. Suffering, rodyon romanitch, is a great thing. Now, pay no attention to my waist line, and don't laugh. There's an idea in ring. I know there is. Mikolka

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