Part 5, Chapter 4
Sonia: 'Suffer and expiate your sin by it, that's what you must do.'
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From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The novel's central theological theme: suffering accepted is the path to redemption, embodied by Sonia and finally accepted by Raskolnikov.
Part 2, Chapter 1
Marmeladov earlier: 'It's not joy I thirst for, but sorrow and tears.'
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