“In der Tat, es kann nichts Ärgerlicheres geben, als zum Beispiel reich und von anständiger Familie zu sein, ein nettes Äußeres und eine hübsche Bildung sein eigen zu nennen, nicht dumm zu sein, sogar ein gutes Herz zu haben, und gleichzeitig kein Talent, keine Besonderheit, nicht einmal eine Wunderlichkeit, keine eigene Idee zu besitzen, sondern einfach ebenso zu sein, wie alle Menschen.”
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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.