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I found not quite to my liking the two lines in your letter where you say that you feel no remorse at all for the act you committed in the bank. There is something higher than the conclusions of reason and the ever-present extenuating circumstances, something to which everyone is subject (that is, again something similar to a banner). Perhaps you are sufficiently intelligent not to take offense at the frankness and unsolicited nature of my remark. First of all, I myself am no better than you or anyone else (and this is not at all false modesty, what would that bring me?), and secondly, if I justify you in my own way in my heart (as I invite you to justify me), then it is still better if I justify you rather than you justify yourself.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (letter to G. A. Kovner, 1877)

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