Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist
| Date of Birth | : | 12 Nov, 1821 |
| Date of Death | : | 09 Feb, 1881 |
| Place of Birth | : | Moscow, Russia |
| Profession | : | Philosopher, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist |
| Nationality | : | Russian |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist and short-story writer whose psychological penetration into the darkest recesses of the human heart, together with his unsurpassed moments of illumination, had an immense influence on 20th-century fiction.
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.
To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
I think the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.
Money is coined liberty.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort.
