“Above all, don’t lie to yourself." – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov "I don’t want to die without any scars." – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club "Not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." – André Gide, Autumn Leaves "If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something." – Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." – Paulo Coelho, Brida "If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives." – Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz Elevator "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath "I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do." – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart "If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all." – John Green, Paper Towns "Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer." – Dan Brown, Digital Fortress "Fear is an illusion..." - Dark Templar, Starcraft 2”
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Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, perhaps most recognized today for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov.
Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Considered by many as a founder or precursor of 20th-century existentialism, his Notes from Underground (1864), written in the embittered voice of the anonymous "underground man", was called by Walter Kaufmann the "best overture for existentialism ever written."
His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.