Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.

The line expresses a deliberately paradoxical pleasure in transgression: even when an act is “wrong,” the sheer sensation of breaking—of violating rules, objects, or expectations—can feel liberating. In Dostoyevsky’s moral psychology, such impulses often signal a deeper revolt against rational self-interest and social order, a craving to assert freedom through negation. The remark points to the human capacity to enjoy destruction for its own sake, not merely as a means to an end, and it hints at the unsettling intimacy between pleasure and guilt. It also anticipates Dostoyevsky’s recurring theme that people may choose suffering or wrongdoing simply to prove they are not reducible to reason or utility.