Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Jamais consegui nada, nem mesmo me tornar malvado; não consegui ser belo, nem mau, nem canalha, nem herói, nem mesmo um inseto. E agora, termino a existência no meu cantinho, onde tento piedosamente me consolar, aliás sem sucesso, dizendo-me que um homem inteligente não consegue nunca se tornar alguma coisa, e que só o imbecil triunfa. Sim, meus senhores, o homem do século XIX tem o dever de ser essencialmente destituído de caráter; está moralmente obrigado a isso. O homem que possui caráter, o homem de ação, é um ser essencialmente medíocre.”
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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.