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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes:

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881

Birthday: November 11

Death: February 9

All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: 1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.3, ch.5 (translated by David Magarshak).

topic: Law, Ordinary Extraordinary, People, Ordinary And Extraordinary

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