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Wikiquote talk:Votes for deletion

Deletion pursuant to specially named discussions
Note to closers: When deleting an article pursuant to VfD, the convenient "Reason for deletion" feature works well when the name of the discussion page is the same as the name of the page discussed. However, when the names are different, as commonly happens for group nominations and repeat nominations, it results in a redlink or an incorrect link to a prior discussion. Therefore, in order to make the deletion log accurate and useful, please check whether the names are different and, if so, use the "Other reason" option to manually link the specific discussion pursuant to which the article is being deleted. Thanks. ~ Ningauble 15:51, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I have been in this situation before while closing VfDs, and it won't be helpful at all if the deletion summary for the VfD was a redlink leading nowhere or a link to an incorrect page. This leaves the user questioning why the article was deleted, which we should try to avoid. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for these types of VfDs, and will be sure to manually input the link to the correct VfD page when deleting one when it ever happens again. Thanks. — RyanCross (talk ) 21:20, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Note also: The same considerations apply to deletion of non-article pages, such as those in the Category:, Template:, and Wikiquote: name spaces, because the automated summary uses the page name without prefix. ~ Ningauble 15:19, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

By the year 2010 how many articles are going to be voted for deletion? 10? 20? 30? 40?(StarWarsFanBoy 02:03, 4 December 2009 (UTC))

Deletion candidates
The candidates Hiromu Arakawa, Money as debt and Ahmet çakar are closed. Shouldn't anyone remove those closed Candidates and replace them with new opened up candidates? Also when where will be more VFDs to open up? I only come to this website to make sure the website gets cleaned up by making sure Only the bad pages gets deleted by my votes.(StarWarsFanBoy 02:05, 18 January 2010 (UTC))

Name of this page
I may sound stupid, but I have a question. Why is this page called "Votes" for deletion when the first sentence states "Votes for deletion is the process where the community discusses whether a page should be deleted or not, depending on the consensus of the discussion." Surely, if we are trying to get consensus, it shouldn't be called a "vote"... in my opinion "Requests for deletion" or something of that sort be a better title. Pmlineditor    ∞    15:32, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * On Wikipedia, they long ago changed it to "Articles for Deletion". I'm not saying we necessarily should follow suit, but it's an option. BD2412 T 17:07, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * As far as I recall, it hasn't been an issue here, but I agree it may sound contradiction. I'm not sure if we are pressed by an urgent need to rename, but it is an option. --Aphaia 22:45, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I support the not just a vote approach, and the language about "a variety of factors, including (besides the votes) policies, practices, precedents, arguments, compromises between conflicting positions, and seriousness of the participants." It might be a good idea to highlight this in the lede section. Still, I don't think the name is much of a problem, especially in relation to the work that would be involved in moving or integrating the old "new" naming system (circa 2006–7) for discussions and archives. ~ Ningauble 14:27, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
 * No objections to a possible name change to something else. -- Cirt (talk) 02:16, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't mind how the name of this page currently is, but sure, I can see how "Votes" wouldn't be the best name for a discussion that centers on reaching consensus. The English Wikipedia uses "Articles for Deletion" as it is such a large wiki, they need deletion pages for nearly every namespace from article, user, template, etc.. Here on English Wikiquote, we use our Votes for Deletion for any page in any namespace in the wiki, so "Requests for Deletion", in my opinion, would be the best name... but again, if we do decide to rename, like Ningauble said, we'd have to rename past archives and discussions which may take a while... — RyanCross (talk ) 17:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Here's a crazy idea... why not take this page to WQ:VFD for rename? — RyanCross  (talk ) 17:28, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Because we aren't seeking to delete this page, merely to rename it. I like "Requests for Deletion" also. I think renaming archives and so forth would be a mere hiccup. BD2412 T 23:03, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
 * "Requests for Deletion", that sounds fine and dandy. -- Cirt (talk) 02:58, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

 * To add my opinion (over a year late), I believe the change to RFD would be a good change, at least interm. Steps must be taken to improve the system, regardless of how short they are, or how many more must be taken after the first, second, or third...!
 * Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 23:37, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

 * I also support changing the name of VfD to "Requests for Deletion". ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:44, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

The comparison with Wikipedia is not apt, as they have many different pages, such as CfD (where D means discussion not deletion), IfD and MfD as well as AfD. I think that to some extent there is a vote, since one or two discussions are by no means unanimous.--Abramsky (talk) 11:53, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

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Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 film which tells the story of a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to knuckle under to the system.
 * Directed by Stuart Rosenberg and written by Donn Pearce, based on his novel.

The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform. Taglines

Luke

 * Oh come on! Stop beatin' it! Get out there yourself! Stop feedin' off me! Get out of here! I can't breathe! Give me some air!

Dragline

 * That's my darlin' Luke. He grin like a baby, but he bites like a 'gator.

Captain

 * We got a couple men here doing 20 spots. We got one that's got all of it. We got all kinds, and you gonna fit in real good. Of course, unless you get rabbit in your blood and you decide to take off for home. You give the bonus system time and a set of leg chains to keep you slowed down just a little bit, for your own good. You'll learn the rules. Now, it's all up to you. Now I can be a good guy, or I can be one real mean son-of-a-bitch. It's all up to you.

 * You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice, you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set 'cause you're gonna get your mind right. And I mean RIGHT. [To the other inmates] Take a good look at Luke. Cool Hand Luke?

Dialogue

 * Carr: Them clothes got laundry numbers on them. You remember your number and always wear the ones that has your number. Any man forgets his number spends a night in the box. These here spoons you keep with you. Any man loses his spoon spends a night in the box. There's no playing grab-ass or fighting in the building. You got a grudge against another man, you fight him Saturday afternoon. Any man playing grab-ass or fighting in the building spends a night in the box. First bell's at five minutes of eight when you will get in your bunk. Last bell is at eight. Any man not in his bunk at eight spends the night in the box. There is no smoking in the prone position in bed. To smoke you must have both legs over the side of your bunk. Any man caught smoking in the prone position in bed... spends a night in the box. You get two sheets. Every Saturday, you put the clean sheet on the top... the top sheet on the bottom... and the bottom sheet you turn in to the laundry boy. Any man turns in the wrong sheet spends a night in the box. No one'll sit in the bunks with dirty pants on. Any man with dirty pants on sitting on the bunks spends a night in the box. Any man don't bring back his empty pop bottle spends a night in the box. Any man loud talking spends a night in the box. You got questions, you come to me. I'm Carr, the floor walker. I'm responsible for order in here. Any man don't keep order spends a night in...
 * Luke: ...the box.
 * [Carr turns and looks at Luke.]
 * Carr: I hope you ain't going to be a hard case.
 * [Luke smiles and shakes his head]

 * [The Captain is going over Luke's paperwork while reviewing a set of new prisoners]
 * Captain: It says here you did real good in the war. Bronze Star, Silver Star, couple of Purple Hearts. Sergeant. Then came out the same way you went in... buck private.
 * Luke: I was just passing time, Captain.

 * Dragline: Boy, you're new meat. You're gonna have to shape up fast and hard for this gang. We got rules here. In order to learn 'em, you gotta do more work with your ears than with your mouth.
 * [Luke chuckles]
 * Dragline: Somebody say somethin'?
 * Luke: I didn't say nothin', Boss.
 * Dragline: Well, whatta we got here?
 * Luke: A Lucas Jackson.
 * Society Red: You don't have a name here until Dragline gives you one.
 * Dragline: Maybe we ought to call it No Ears. You don't listen much, do ya, boy?
 * Luke: I ain't heard that much worth listenin' to. There's a lot of guys layin' down a lot of rules and regulations.

 * Dragline: He ain't in the box because of the joke played on him. He back-sassed a free man. They got their rules. We ain't got nothin' to do with that. Would probably have happened to him sooner or later anyway - a complainer like him. He gotta learn the rules the same as anybody else.
 * Luke: Yeah, them poor old Bosses need all the help they can get.
 * Dragline: You tryin' to say somethin'? You got a flappin' mouth. One of these days, I'm gonna have to flap me up some dust with it.

 * Convict: [about the woman washing a car nearby] Oh man, oh man, I'm dyin'.
 * Gambler: She ain't got nothin' but, nothin' but one safety pin holdin' that thing on. Come on safety pin, POP. Come on baby, POP.
 * Dragline: Hey Lord, whatever I done, don't strike me blind for another couple of minutes. My Lucille!... That's Lucille, you mullet head. Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.
 * Convict: She don't know what she's doin'.
 * Luke: Oh boy, she knows exactly what she's doin'. She's drivin' us crazy and lovin' every minute of it.
 * Dragline: Shut your mouth about my Lucille.

 * Dragline: [After Luke wins a poker game by bluffing] Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
 * Luke: Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
 * Dragline: Move over. I'm gonna sit in here next to my boy - Cool Hand Luke.

 * [Luke's terminally ill mother comes to the prison to see him]
 * Luke: You've done your best, Arletta. What I've done - myself is the only problem.
 * Arletta: No, no it ain't Luke. You ain't alone. Everywhere you go, I'm with you. John too.
 * Luke: You never thought maybe that's a heavy load?
 * Arletta: Aw, why, we, we always thought you was strong enough to carry it. Was we wrong?
 * Luke: I don't know. There are things just never the way they seem, Arletta. You know that. A man's gotta go his own way.

 * John, Jr.: Why can't you have chains?
 * Luke: John-boy, lemme tell you something. You know, them chains ain't medals. You get 'em for making mistakes. And you make a bad enough mistake, and then you gotta deal with the Man [gestures to Boss Godfrey]. And he is one rough old boy.

 * [Luke leads the convicts in finishing the day's roadwork hours ahead of schedule]
 * Dragline: Where'd the road go?
 * Luke: That's it. That's the end of it.
 * Convict: Man, there's still daylight.
 * Dragline: About two hours left.
 * Convict: What do we do now?
 * Luke: Nothin'.
 * Dragline: [laughing] Oh Luke, you wild, beautiful thing. You crazy handful of nothin'.

 * Luke: [about God and the thunder] Let him go. Bam, Bam.
 * Dragline: Knock it off, Luke. You can't talk about Him that way.
 * Luke: Are you still believin' in that big bearded Boss up there? You think he's watchin' us?
 * Dragline: Get in here. Ain't ya scared? Ain't ya scared of dyin'?
 * Luke: Dyin'? Boy, he can have this little life any time he wants to. Do ya hear that? Are ya hearin' it? Come on. You're welcome to it, ol' timer. Let me know you're up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it.
 * [He looks around]
 * Luke: I'm just standin' in the rain talkin' to myself.

 * Boss Kean: [putting Luke in the box when he learns that his mother has died] Sorry, Luke. Just doin' my job. You gotta appreciate that.
 * Luke: [disgustedly] Naw. Callin' it your job don't make it right, boss.

 * Captain: You're gonna get used to wearin' them chains after a while, Luke, but you never stop listenin' to them clinkin'. 'Cause they're gonna remind you of what I've been sayin' - for your own good.
 * Luke: Wish you'd stop bein' so good to me, Cap'n.
 * Captain: [hits Luke with his blackjack, knocking him down] Don't you ever talk that way to me. Never! Never! What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week - which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.
 * Note: bolded portion ranked #11 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.

 * Luke: Don't hit me anymore... Oh God, I pray to God you don't hit me anymore. I'll do anything you say, but I can't take anymore.
 * Boss Paul: You got your mind right, Luke?
 * Luke: Yeah. I got it right. I got it right, boss. [He grips the ankles of the guard]
 * Boss Paul: Suppose you's back-slide on us?
 * Luke: Oh no I won't. I won't, boss.
 * Boss Paul: Suppose you's to back-sass?
 * Luke: No I won't. I won't. I got my mind right.
 * Boss Paul: You try to run again, we gonna kill ya.
 * Luke: I won't, I won't, boss.

 * [after Luke steals a state prison dump truck and Dragline climbs in during the escape]
 * Dragline: "Don't hit me, Boss. Don't hit me. I'll do whatever you say. Only don't hit me." You're an original, that's what you are! Them mullet-heads didn't even know you was foolin'!
 * Luke: Foolin' 'em, huh? You can't fool 'em about somethin' like that. They broke me. But they didn't get my mind right. Not with no stick, no, sir.
 * Dragline: Aw. All that time, you was plannin' on runnin' again.
 * Luke: I never planned anything in my life.

 * Luke: Anybody here? Hey, Old Man. You home tonight? Can You spare a minute? It's about time we had a little talk. I know I'm a pretty evil fellow... killed people in the war and got drunk... and chewed up municipal property and the like. I know I got no call to ask for much... but even so, You've got to admit You ain't dealt me no cards in a long time. It's beginning to look like You got things fixed so I can't never win out. Inside, outside, all of them... rules and regulations and bosses. You made me like I am. Now just where am I supposed to fit in? Old Man, I gotta tell You. I started out pretty strong and fast. But it's beginning to get to me. When does it end? What do You got in mind for me? What do I do now? Right. All right. [Gets on knees, closes eyes and begins to pray] On my knees, asking. [pause] Yeah, that's what I thought. I guess I'm pretty tough to deal with, huh? A hard case. Yeah. I guess I gotta find my own way.
 * [Police cars arrive, surrounding the building; Dragline enters]
 * Dragline: Luke?
 * Luke: [Shakes head and smiles] Is that Your answer, Old Man? I guess You're a hard case, too.
 * Dragline: Luke? You all right? They got us, boy. They're out there, thicker than flies. Bosses, dogs, sheriffs, more guns than I've ever seen in my life. You ain't got a chance. They caught up with me right after we split up. And they was aimin' to kill ya. But I fixed it. I got 'em to promise if you give up peaceful, they won't whip ya this time...Luke, you gotta listen to me. All ya got to do is give up nice and quiet. Just play cool.
 * Luke: [standing before an open window] What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
 * [Luke is shot in the throat]

 * Dragline: They took him right down that road.
 * Convicts: What'd he look like, Drag?...Yeah, what'd he look like?..He had his eyes opened or closed, Drag?
 * Dragline: He was smiling... That's right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn't know it 'fore, they could tell right then that they weren't a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Old Luke, he was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he's a natural-born world-shaker.

Taglines

 * The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform.
 * On The Chain-Gang They'd Seen Every Kind Of Man - But Luke Became A Legend
 * "What we have here is 'failure to communicate'."
 * He was a cool customer. . .until the law made it hot for him!

Cast

 * Paul Newman - Lucas "Luke" Jackson
 * George Kennedy - Dragline
 * J.D. Cannon - Society Red
 * Strother Martin - Captain
 * Jo Van Fleet - Arletta
 * Clifton James - Carr
 * Morgan Woodward - Boss Godfrey
 * Luke Askew - Boss Paul
 * Robert Donner - Boss Shorty
 * Joy Harmon - The Girl (Lucille)
 * Clifton James - Carr
 * John McLiam - Boss Kean
 * Andre Trottier - Boss Popler

 * Lou Antonio - Koko
 * Robert Drivas - Loudmouth Steve
 * Marc Cavell - Rabbitt
 * Richard Davalos - Blind Dick
 * Warren Finnerty - Tattoo
 * Dennis Hopper - Babalugats
 * Wayne Rogers - Gambler
 * Harry Dean Stanton - Tramp
 * Ralph Waite - Alibi
 * Anthony Zerbe - Dog Boy
 * Buck Kartalian - Dynamite
 * Joe Don Baker - Fixer

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Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866, and later published in book form. It focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished St. Petersburg student who formulates and executes a plan to kill a hated, unscrupulous pawnbroker for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, he argues, ridding the world of evil.

Part I

 * All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.
 * Ch. 1; variant translation: It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of.Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

 * He ran beside the mare, ran in front of her, saw her being whipped across the eyes, right in the eyes! He was crying, he felt choking, his tears were streaming. One of the men gave him a cut with the whip across the face, he did not feel it. Wringing his hands and screaming, he rushed up to the grey-headed old man with the grey beard, who was shaking his head in disapproval. One woman seized him by the hand and would have taken him away, but he tore himself from her and ran back to the mare. She was almost at the last gasp, but began kicking once more.
 * Ch. 5

 * He suddenly heard steps in the room where the old woman lay. He stopped short and was still as death. But all was quiet, so it must have been his fancy. All at once he heard distinctly a faint cry, as though some one had uttered a low broken moan. Then again dead silence for a minute or two. He sat squatting on his heels by the box and waited, holding his breath. Suddenly he jumped up, seized the axe and ran out of the bedroom.
 * Ch. 7

Part II

 * So he lay a very long while. Now and then he seemed to wake up, and at such moments he noticed that it was far into the night, but it did not occur to him to get up. At last he noticed that it was beginning to get light. He was lying on his back, still dazed from his recent oblivion. Fearful, despairing cries rose shrilly from the street, sounds which he heard every night, indeed, under his window after two o’clock. They woke him up now.
 * Ch. 1

 * "Where is it?" thought Raskolnikov. "Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!...How true it is! Good God, how true! Man is a vile creature!...And vile is he who calls him vile for that," he added a moment later.
 * Ch. 6

 * "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."
 * Ch. 6

 * The lodgers, one after another, squeezed back into the doorway with that strange inner feeling of satisfaction which may be observed in the presence of a sudden accident, even in those nearest and dearest to the victim, from which no living man is exempt, even in spite of the sincerest sympathy and compassion.
 * Ch. 7

Part III

 * "What do you think?" shouted Razumikhin, louder than ever, "you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing, too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. In the first case you are a man, in the second you're no better than a bird. Truth won't escape you, but life can be cramped."
 * Ch. 1

 * But what can I tell you? I have known Rodion for a year and a half; he is moody, melancholy, proud, and haughty; recently (and perhaps for much longer than I know) he has been morbidly depressed and over-anxious about his health. He is kind and generous. He doesn't like to display his feelings, and would rather seem heartless than talk about them. Sometimes, however, he is not hypochondriacal at all, but simply inhumanly cold and unfeeling. Really, it is as if he had two separate personalities, each dominating him alternately.
 * Ch. 2

 * "It began with the socialist doctrine. You know their doctrine; crime is a protest against the abnormality of the social organization and nothing more, and nothing more; no other causes admitted!..."
 * Ch. 5

Raskolnikov went on walking beside him. His legs felt suddenly weak, a cold shiver ran down his spine, and his heart seemed to stand still for a moment, then suddenly began throbbing as though it were set free. So they walked for about a hundred paces, side by side in silence. The man did not look at him. "What do you mean... what is... Who is a murderer?" muttered Raskolnikov hardly audibly. "You are a murderer," the man answered still more articulately and emphatically, with a smile of triumphant hatred, and again he looked straight into Raskolnikov’s pale face and stricken eyes.
 * "Murderer!" he said suddenly in a quiet but clear and distinct voice.
 * Ch. 6

Part IV

 * It was dark in the corridor, they were standing near the lamp. For a minute they were looking at one another in silence.  Razumikhin remembered that minute all his life.  Raskolnikov’s burning and intent eyes grew more penetrating every moment, piercing into his soul, into his consciousness.  Suddenly Razumikhin started.  Something strange, as it were passed between them... Some idea, some hint as it were, slipped, something awful, hideous, and suddenly understood on both sides... Razumikhin turned pale.
 * Ch. 3

 * Destitution, my dear sir, destitution – that is a sin.

Part VI

 * "You ought to thank God, perhaps. How do you know? Perhaps God is saving you for something. But keep a good heart and have less fear! Are you afraid of the great expiation before you? No, it would be shameful to be afraid of it. Since you have taken such a step, you must harden your heart. There is justice in it. You must fulfill the demands of justice. I know that you don’t believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!"
 * Porfiry, in Ch. 2

 * Nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery. If there’s the hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble. But if all, to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse satisfaction, but still a satisfaction. And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That’s so for all stages of development and classes of society.
 * Svidrigaïlov, in Ch. 4, p. 471
 * Variant translation: Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

"Which all men shed," he put in almost frantically, "which flows and has always flowed in streams, which is spilt like champagne, and for which men are crowned in the Capitol and are called afterwards benefactors of mankind... If I had succeeded I should have been crowned with glory, but now I'm trapped."
 * "Brother, brother, what are you saying? Why, you have shed blood?" cried Dunia in despair.
 * Ch. 7

 * "Ah, it's not picturesque, not aesthetically attractive! I fail to understand why it is more honourable to shell some besieged town than to destroy by the blows of an axe."
 * Ch. 7

 * Raskolnikov refused the water with his hand, and softly and brokenly, but distinctly said: "It was I who killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister Lizaveta with an axe and robbed them."
 * Ch. 8

Epilogue

 * Mere existence had always been too little for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was just because of the strength of his desires that he had thought himself a man to whom more was permissible than to others.
 * Pt. II

 * How it happened he did not know. But all at once something seemed to seize him and fling him at her feet. He wept and threw his arms round her knees. For the first instant she was terribly frightened and she turned pale. She jumped up and looked at him trembling. But at the same moment she understood, and a light of infinite happiness came into her eyes. She knew and had no doubt that he loved her beyond everything and that at last the moment had come...
 * Pt. II

 * They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.
 * Pt. II

 * Seven years, only seven years! At the beginning of their happiness at some moments they were both ready to look on those seven years as though they were seven days. He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story – the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.
 * Pt. II

Quotes about Crime and Punishment

 * (You never felt a violent impact from a book?) CL: A bit, sometimes. I felt it with “Crime and Punishment,” by Dostoyevsky, which gave me a real fever.
 * Clarice Lispector Interview (1977) Translated into English by Benjamin Moser

 * (When asked for her all-time favorite book:) I would say Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, which had an enormous effect on me. I think young people today might not realize how readable that novel is.
 * Joyce Carol Oates interview quoted here

title: Crime and Punishment