“No he hablado de las lágrimas humanas que saturan la tierra, para ser más breve. Confieso humildemente que no comprendo la razón de este estado de cosas. La culpa es sólo de los hombres. Se les dio el paraíso y codiciaron la libertad, aun sabiendo que serían desgraciados. Por lo tanto, no merecen piedad alguna. Mi pobre mente terrenal me permite comprender solamente que el dolor existe, que no hay culpables, que todo se encadena, que todo pasa y se equilibra.”
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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.