Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Al mondo non c'è nulla di più difficile della franchezza, e non c'è nulla di più facile dell'adulazione. Se nella franchezza c'è solo una centesima parte di noterella stonata, ne nasce subito una dissonanza, e subito dopo uno scandalo. Al contrario, anche se nell'adulazione è tutto stonato fino all'ultima noterella, essa risulta comunque gradevole e la si ascolta non senza piacere; magari un piacere grossolano, ma pur sempre piacere. E per quanto smaccata sia l'adulazione, almeno per metà sembra sempre veritiera.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
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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.