“Este conocimiento de nuestra culpa es la coronación de la carrera religiosa, como es, por lo demás, la de todas las carreras humanas Pues el religioso no es un ser aparte, sino la imagen de lo que deberían ser todos los hombres. Sólo cuando tengáis conciencia de ello, vuestro corazón se sentirá penetrado de un amor infinito, universal, insaciable. Entonces cada uno de vosotros será capaz de conquistar el mundo entero con su amor y de borrar los pecados con sus lágrimas.”
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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.