1 Each class has an equal right to exist.
2 A normal man, it is true, hardly exists.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 3 Mere existence had always been too little for him; he had always wanted more.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 4 When the deception is open, as in a free marriage, then it does not exist, it's unthinkable.
5 That law, of course, is unknown at present, but I am convinced that it exists, and one day may become known.
6 He had mixed up incidents and had explained events as due to circumstances which existed only in his imagination.
7 "Ideas, if you like, are fermenting," he said to Pyotr Petrovitch, "and desire for good exists, though it's in a childish form, and honesty you may find, although there are crowds of brigands."
8 The vast mass of mankind is mere material, and only exists in order by some great effort, by some mysterious process, by means of some crossing of races and stocks, to bring into the world at last perhaps one man out of a thousand with a spark of independence.
9 But you must observe this, my dear Rodion Romanovitch, the general case, the case for which all legal forms and rules are intended, for which they are calculated and laid down in books, does not exist at all, for the reason that every case, every crime, for instance, so soon as it actually occurs, at once becomes a thoroughly special case and sometimes a case unlike any that's gone before.