| Quote #7 But that is the beginning of a new story – the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another. (Epigraph, 2.30) |
Usually when we hear about "passing from one world into another," it's in reference to somebody dying. Here it's as if Raskolnikov's life before was a kind of death, and through love (and suffering) he is finally born.