“Există firi sensibile şi de o netăgăduită delicatețe, care preferă totuşi cu îndărătnicie, cu o pudică râvnă, să nu-şi deschidă sufletul nici celei mai scumpe ființe, să nu-şi dezvăluie dragostea şi gingăşia nu numai în fața altora, dar nici măcar atunci când se află singure, între patru ochi : dimpotrivă, adeseori într-o asemenea intimitate ele devin mai stăpânite, lăsând doar arareori să apară la suprafaţă toată gingăşia sentimentelor lor, şi-atunci sentimentele acelea răbufnesc, se revarsă cu atât mai puternice cu cât mai îndelung au fost reținute.”
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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.