1 that there is a law for such things.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 5: CHAPTER III 2 Well, punish me for the letter of the law.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 3 We were united in lawful wedlock and she bore me off into the country like a treasure.
4 Of course, it was a legal crime, of course, the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 5 That law, of course, is unknown at present, but I am convinced that it exists, and one day may become known.
6 Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary.
7 The second category all transgress the law; they are destroyers or disposed to destruction according to their capacities.
8 But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary.
9 One thing only is clear, that the appearance of all these grades and sub-divisions of men must follow with unfailing regularity some law of nature.
10 He has suffered a great deal and is still suffering from the idea that he could make a theory, but was incapable of boldly overstepping the law, and so he is not a man of genius.
11 Napoleon attracted him tremendously, that is, what affected him was that a great many men of genius have not hesitated at wrongdoing, but have overstepped the law without thinking about it.
12 She has been in a sort of fever for the last few days, and has already made a regular plan for your becoming in the end an associate and even a partner in Pyotr Petrovitch's business, which might well be, seeing that you are a student of law.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 13 A special little theory came in too--a theory of a sort--dividing mankind, you see, into material and superior persons, that is persons to whom the law does not apply owing to their superiority, who make laws for the rest of mankind, the material, that is.
14 A special little theory came in too--a theory of a sort--dividing mankind, you see, into material and superior persons, that is persons to whom the law does not apply owing to their superiority, who make laws for the rest of mankind, the material, that is.