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Crime and Punishment Versions of Reality Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph). We used Constance Garnett's translation.

Quote #7

But that is the beginning of a new storythe story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another. (Epilogue.2.30)

Usually when we hear about "passing from one world into another," it's in reference to somebody dying. Here, it's as if Raskolnikov's life before was a kind of death and through love (and suffering), he is finally born.