To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible punishment so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
House of the Dead · 1862
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The House of the Dead, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 1986.
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Записки из Мёртвого дома [The House of the Dead]." Vremya, 1860-1862.
