“Este afán de vivir a toda costa es un rasgo característico de los Karamazov, y tú también lo sientes; ¿pero por qué ha de ser vil? Todavía hay mucha fuerza centrípeta en el planeta, Aliocha. Uno quiere vivir y yo vivo incluso a despecho de la lógica. No creo en el orden universal, pero adoro los tiernos brotes primaverales y el cielo azul, y quiero a ciertas personas no sé por qué. Admiro el heroísmo; ya hace tiempo que no creo en él, pero lo sigo admirando por costumbre...”
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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.