Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Нового шага, нового собственного слова они всего больше боятся...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

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Resistance to change New ideas

Speaker

Raskolnikov

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

Crime and Punishment

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

Russia Europe

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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1866 - Dec. 1866, monthly serial.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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Time
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

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Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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Language
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Time
1865 1860s 19th century
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Citation

The Constitution of the United States. Amend. 13, sect. 1.

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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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Felix Holt, the Radical

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Campaign promises Politics and lies Political campaigns Elections Politics
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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
1866 1860s 19th century
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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 5.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 5.

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Beauty will save the world.

Adelaida

Quoted in The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Speaker
Adelaida

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source
The Idiot
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1869 1860s 19th century
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Идиот [The Idiot]." The Russian Messenger, 1868–69.

Current Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Idiot, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky. Vintage, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 6.