baudelairesgirl:favorite male characters (1/?) → RODION ROMANOVICH RASKOLNIKOV (Crime and Punishment
baudelairesgirl:favorite male characters (1/?) → RODION ROMANOVICH RASKOLNIKOV (Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)What had he to live for?What had he to look forward to? Why should he strive? To live in order to exist? Why, he had been ready a thousand times before to give up existence for the sake of an idea, for a hope, even for a fancy. Mere existence had always been too little for him;he had always wanted more.Perhaps it was just because of the strength of his desires that he had thought himself a man to whom more was permissible than to others. -- source link