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When reason fails, the devil helps!

When reason fails, the devil helps!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inspirational, Devil, Helping
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2006). “Crime and Punishment”, p.173, ReadHowYouWant.com

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mean, Devil, Habit

If not reason, then the devil.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Devil, Reason, Ifs
Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.72, Vintage

One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Taken, Omission, Devil

I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her.

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mad, Flying, Devil
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.412, Google Publishing

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