The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

believe that to execute a man for murder is to punish him immeasurably more dreadfully than is equivalent to his crime. A murder by sentence is far more dreadful than a murder committed by a criminal.

I am sure people make a great mistake in sorting each other into groups, by appearances; but I am boring you, I see, you—"

and then it struck me that life may be grand enough even in a prison."

'What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count