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by new pangs. The thought whether the others did not
know everything tortures him, so that he plays an
entirely useless comedy when, towards certain people, he
acts as if nothing was the matter. And really there are
some who are on the track; one who has suspected
everything and completely sees through him, and he is
a genius of a jurist, an examining magistrate. Still
Raskolnikof is neither arrested nor examined; no, what
at last opens his lips and compels him to surrender
himself is a purely inward, spiritual movement. Long
before it gains the mastery, it presents itself to him, as
the moment approaches when he must disclose himself,
and he even draws a parallel of the feelings of the
advent of this moment with his earlier perception of
the necessity that the hour was come for murdering the
old woman. Yet this feeling is continually crossed by
the feeling of growing hate towards the whole world
about him; he feels a murderous hatred towards those
in regard to whom he suspects or feels that they know
his secret. When, in his solitary ponderings, he puts to
himself the questions what, under these or those given
circumstances, he shall do in order not to be trapped, the
outburst, “Then I shall kill him,” is the constant answer
to all such questions that arise. Nay, at last, he discovers,
with horror, that even of his mother and sisters,
who have always been so dear to him, he thinks now
and then with a feeling of hate.
And this hatred and all this anguish have their root
in love. If only he had not loved so much, all this would
not have happened.
If his soul had been barren, if he had not been bold,
magnanimous and earnest, he would never have become
a murderer. During this horrible time he feels more and
more drawn towards the young girl who has been named
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