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 Crime and Punishment  Fyodor Dostoevsky   What do people fear most? A new step, a new word of their own     But soon he seemed to sink deep in thought, or even, to be more precise, into a kind of trance, and he walked on without noticing his surroundings, nor indeed wishing to notice them.     "They've got used to it. Had a little cry and got used to it. There's nothing human scum can't get used to!" He sank into thought. "But if that's not true," he suddenly exclaimed without meaning to, "if man isn't actually a scoundrel, isn't actually scum, the whole human race, I mean, then all else is new preconception, just fears that have been foisted upon us, and there are no barriers, and that's exactly how it should be!'     Life be hanged, so long as our precious loved ones are happy     He taunted and tortured himself with such questions, and even found some pleasure in doing so. These questions were not new, though, and ...