Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“La cosa è chiara: per se stessa, per la propria comodità, anche per salvarsi dalla morte non si venderebbe, ma per un altro ecco che si vende! Per una persona cara, per una persona adorata si venderà! Ecco in cosa consiste tutto il nostro busillis: per il fratello, per la madre si venderà! Venderà tutto! Oh, allora noi, all'occorrenza, soffocheremo anche il nostro senso morale; la libertà, la tranquillità, perfino la coscienza, tutto, tutto porteremo al mercato delle pulci. Alla malora la vita! Purché le creature che amiamo siano felici.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Crime and Punishment
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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.