Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky; 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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I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too
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It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
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There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.