Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Crush
  • Useless
  • Murderer