“Well, you see... I really don’t know how to express it properly... It’s a playful, psychological idea... When you were writing your article, surely you couldn’t have helped, he-he! fancying yourself... just a little, an ‘extraordinary’ man, uttering a new word in your sense... That’s so, isn’t it?” “Quite possibly,” Raskolnikov answered contemptuously. Razumihin made a movement. “And, if so, could you bring yourself in case of worldly difficulties and hardship or for some service to humanity — to overstep obstacles?... For instance, to rob and murder?” And again he winked with his left eye,
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