All 15 Uses of
therefore
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- And therefore they had to take turns, so that in every house she was expected before she arrived, and everyone knew that on such and such a day Marfa Petrovna would be reading the letter in such and such a place and people assembled for every reading of it, even many who had heard it several times already both in their own houses and in other people's.†
Chpt 1.3therefore = for that reason
- He had learnt, he had suddenly quite unexpectedly learnt, that the next day at seven o'clock Lizaveta, the old woman's sister and only companion, would be away from home and that therefore at seven o'clock precisely the old woman would be left alone.†
Chpt 1.5
- We therefore summon you, hereupon.†
Chpt 2.1 *
- And if the ear-rings being found in Nikolay's hands at the very day and hour of the murder constitutes an important piece of circumstantial evidence against him—although the explanation given by him accounts for it, and therefore it does not tell seriously against him—one must take into consideration the facts which prove him innocent, especially as they are facts that cannot be denied.†
Chpt 2.4
- Therefore, in acquiring wealth solely and exclusively for myself, I am acquiring, so to speak, for all, and helping to bring to pass my neighbour's getting a little more than a torn coat; and that not from private, personal liberality, but as a consequence of the general advance.†
Chpt 2.5
- I am his friend, and therefore I am your friend, too, I want to be...I had a presentiment...Last year there was a moment...though it wasn't a presentiment really, for you seem to have fallen from heaven.†
Chpt 3.1
- But he would have told you at once that the workmen could not have been there two days before, and that therefore you must have been there on the day of the murder at eight o'clock.†
Chpt 3.6
- "I am not particularly interested in anyone's opinion," Svidrigailov answered, dryly and even with a shade of haughtiness, "and therefore why not be vulgar at times when vulgarity is such a convenient cloak for our climate...and especially if one has a natural propensity that way," he added, laughing again.†
Chpt 4.1
- The last idea was the most revolting, but he was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel, and so he could not help believing that the last end was the most likely.†
Chpt 4.4
- "When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled, "And said, Where have ye laid him?†
Chpt 4.4
- Jesus therefore again groaning in Himself cometh to the grave.†
Chpt 4.4
- I am leaving here to-day or to-morrow and therefore I wanted to speak to her about...However, you may be present during the interview.†
Chpt 5.1
- Not only was this "serious business man" strikingly incongruous with the rest of the party, but it was evident, too, that he had come upon some matter of consequence, that some exceptional cause must have brought him and that therefore something was going to happen.†
Chpt 5.3
- "Amalia Ivanovna, we shall have to send word to the police and therefore I humbly beg you meanwhile to send for the house porter," Luzhin said softly and even kindly.†
Chpt 5.3
- Svidrigailov informed her at once that he was obliged by very important affairs to leave Petersburg for a time, and therefore brought her fifteen thousand roubles and begged her accept them as a present from him, as he had long been intending to make her this trifling present before their wedding.†
Chpt 6.6
Definition:
for that reason (what follows is so because of what was just said)