“Nos expondrán las dudas más secretas y penosas de su conciencia, y nosotros les daremos la solución, sea el caso que fuere. Ellos aceptarán nuestro fallo de buen grado, al pensar que se les evita la grave obligación de escoger libremente. Y millones de seres humanos serán felices. Sólo no lo serán unos cien mil, sus directores; es decir, nosotros, los depositarios de su secreto. Los hombres felices serán millones y habrá cien mil mártires abrumados por el maldito conocimiento del bien y del mal.”
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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.