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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (/?d?st??j?fski, ?d?s-/; Russian: ????? ??????????? ????????????; IPA: [?f??d?r m???xajl?v??t? d?st??j?fsk??j]; 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is t ...

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarse ...

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on ...

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom t ...

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that tr ...

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for ...

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhoo ...

One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to rea ...

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is sp ...

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of t ...

Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but ...