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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Anyone who can appease a man’s conscience can take his freedom away from him.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.
It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.
