Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[farceuse]

"What do you think?" Razumikhin shouted, raising his voice even more. "You think it's because they're lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man's only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie---you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe

Comments

[un_poet]

Hi there - Just thought I'd share that I have that passage hanging on the wall at work. It's one of the greatest books, without doubt.

[farceuse]

I really enjoyed it, and I didn't quite expect to.

It's nice to hear that someone else found this passage interesting, and it wasn't just my imagination.