“No, not after the publication, but before it, a day, an hour, perhaps, before the great step, you will throw yourself on a new crime, as a way out, and you will commit it solely in order to avoid the publication of these pages.”

Stavrogin shuddered with anger and almost with fear.[[75]] “You cursed psychologist!”—he suddenly cut him short in fury and, without looking round, left the cell.

PLAN OF THE NOVEL
THE LIFE OF A GREAT SINNER

THE LIFE OF A GREAT SINNER

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20/8 December.

—Accumulation of wealth.

—The birth of strong passions.