Brief reference, without explanation, to a person, a text, a myth or a fact known outside the work, which carries with it the meaning of that other story.
In Crime and Punishment
Science, for its part, says: love, before all others, only yourself, for everything in the world is founded on personal interest
The sentence inverts the commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself, putting the speaker in place of the neighbor. Anyone who knows the gospel precept sees that Luzhin's doctrine works only when turned inside out.
So it is a symbol that I am taking the cross upon myself, he-he! And it's true, until now I have suffered very little!
Part Six: The Surrender, Raskolnikov
Love resurrected them: the heart of one held infinite springs of life for the heart of the other
Epilogue: The Resurrection, the narrator
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