Fyodor Dostoevsky Фёдор Достоевский
novelist · St. Petersburg, Russia · 1821–1881
A novelist sentenced to death at twenty-eight, reprieved at the last moment and held for four years in Siberia. Hounded by debt and illness, he wrote of the depths of the human heart.
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1864 · The words of a forty-year-old man who lives shut up in a cellar
Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea.Notes from Underground, part 2 · in place of the original: the English translation by Constance Garnett (1918)
1880 · Set down as the teaching left by the old monastery elder Zosima
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.The Brothers Karamazov, book 6 · in place of the original: the English translation by Constance Garnett (1912)
1880 · The words of the Grand Inquisitor in the story Ivan makes up and tells
the secret of man’s being is not only to live but to have something to live for.The Brothers Karamazov, book 5, "The Grand Inquisitor" · in place of the original: the English translation by Constance Garnett (1912)
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us