1 But that man had some hidden power over him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER III 2 He can't be showing off his power with no motive.
3 Her voice rang out like a bell; triumph and joy gave it power.
4 He had too much confidence in himself, in his power and in the helplessness of his victims.
5 And I know now, Sonia, that whoever is strong in mind and spirit will have power over them.
6 He must clear everything up while he still had some strength, some reasoning power left him.
7 But he had so completely lost all power of reflection that he walked straight to the door and opened it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 8 I divined then, Sonia," he went on eagerly, "that power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up.
9 Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.
10 The conviction that all his faculties, even memory, and the simplest power of reflection were failing him, began to be an insufferable torture.
11 It wasn't to help my mother I did the murder--that's nonsense--I didn't do the murder to gain wealth and power and to become a benefactor of mankind.
12 Of course, in that case many of the benefactors of mankind who snatched power for themselves instead of inheriting it ought to have been punished at their first steps.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 13 Almost every criminal is subject to a failure of will and reasoning power by a childish and phenomenal heedlessness, at the very instant when prudence and caution are most essential.
14 Seeing her position with her unfortunate little ones, I should be glad, as I have said before, so far as lies in my power, to be of service, that is, so far as is in my power, not more.
15 But at the same time he marvelled at the power of controlling himself and hiding his feelings in a patient who the previous day had, like a monomaniac, fallen into a frenzy at the slightest word.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 16 A little more, and their companionship, this mother and this sister, with him after three years' absence, this intimate tone of conversation, in face of the utter impossibility of really speaking about anything, would have been beyond his power of endurance.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 17 It was his conviction that this eclipse of reason and failure of will power attacked a man like a disease, developed gradually and reached its highest point just before the perpetration of the crime, continued with equal violence at the moment of the crime and for longer or shorter time after, according to the individual case, and then passed off like any other disease.
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