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Marmeladov: 'Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn? Poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. But beggary, honored sir, beggary is a vice.'
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From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Material destitution—rented coffin-like rooms, pawned watches, prostitution as survival—is the social ground from which the novel's moral crises spring.
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