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100

This character said: "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart."

Raskolnikov

100

"To the left a clump of trees made a shady spot, where dark things seemed to stir feebly. I blinked, the path was steep. A horn tooted to the right, and I saw the black people run. A heavy and dull detonation shook the ground, a puff of smoke came out of the cliff, and that was all "

The Station

100

This quote describes a [blank] "he thrashed and thrashed at the mare, beside himself with fury. “Father, father,” he cried, “father, what are they doing? Father, they are beating the poor horse!” “Come along, come along!” said his father. “They are drunken and foolish, they are in fun; come away, don’t look!” "

Dream

200

This character said: “Go at once, this very minute, stand at the cross-roads, bow down, first kiss the earth which you have defiled and then bow down to all the world and say to all men aloud"

Sonia

200

"The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special [blank] stench"

[St.] Petersburg

200

"Rodion Romanovitch has two alternatives: a bullet in the brain or [blank].”

Siberia

300

This character said: "Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose."

Marlow

300

The Sepulchral City: "He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there—putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered like mica discs—with curiosity—"

Brussels

300

"The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. The sea-reach of the [blank] stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway."

Thames

400

This character is described in this quote: “I came upon him, and, if he had not heard me coming, I would have fallen over him, too, but he got up in time. He rose, unsteady, long, pale, indistinct, like a vapour exhaled by the earth, and swayed slightly, misty and silent before me;"

Kurtz

400

This quote takes place: "They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. "

Siberia

400

The river described in this quote: "The rapids were near, and an uninterrupted, uniform, headlong, rushing noise filled the mournful stillness of the grove, where not a breath stirred, not a leaf moved, with a mysterious sound—as though the tearing pace of the launched earth had suddenly become audible "

Congo