Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“I want more abuse …” Kirillov muttered, though he did take the pen and sign. “I want more abuse …” “Sign: Vive la république, and enough.” “Bravo!” Kirillov almost bellowed with rapture. “Vive la république démocratique, sociale et universelle ou la mort!… No, no, not that! Liberté, égalité, fraternité ou la mort!* There, that’s better, that’s better,” he wrote it delightedly under his signature. “Enough, enough,” Pyotr Stepanovich kept repeating. “Wait, a little bit more … You know, I’ll sign it again in French: ‘de Kirilloff, gentilhomme russe et citoyen du monde.’† Ha, ha, ha!”3 he dissolved in laughter.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Demons
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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.