Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Alquimia del dolor El Uno te ilumina con su ardor, El otro en ti te pone su duelo, ¡Natura! El que dice a uno: ¡Sepultura! Dice al otro: ¡Vida y esplendor! Hermes desconocido que me asistes Y que siempre me intimidas, Tú me haces al igual de Midas, El más triste de los alquimistas; Por ti yo cambio el oro en hierro Y el paraíso en infierno; En el sudario de las nubes Descubro un cadáver querido, Y sobre las celestes riberas Levanto grandes sarcófagos.”
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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.