Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“E non capii che il sarcasmo era una maschera, che era la tipica, ultima scappatoia delle persone pudiche e caste di cuore, a cui tentino di insinuarsi brutalmente e insistentemente nell’anima, e che fino all’ultimo momento non cedono per orgoglio, timorose di esprimere il loro sentimento dinanzi a voi. Già dalla timidezza con cui era arrivata, in diverse mosse, alla sua battuta sarcastica, decidendosi solo alla fine a pronunciarla, avrei dovuto indovinare. Ma non indovinai, e un sentimento malvagio mi sopraffece. “Aspetta un po’“, pensai.”
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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.