Marmeladov's Confession

From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The drunken clerk Marmeladov's tavern monologue is one of the novel's great set pieces, articulating the theology of the lowest sinner being received by Christ.
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Marmeladov's famous question: 'Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?' and his vision of Christ saying 'Come ye drunkards, come ye weak ones, come ye children of shame!'

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