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When reason fails, the devil helps! — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novel

When reason fails, the devil helps!

In the original Russian

Не рассудок, так бес!

Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment · 1866
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Topic
ReasonBad decisionsDecisions and choices
Medium
Novel
Time
1866
Person
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Provenance
Current citation
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.
Original citation
Dostoyevsky, Feodor. Преступленіе и наказаніе [Crime and Punishment]. The Russian Messenger, 1866, monthly serial.

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