Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Padres míos, ¿qué es el infierno? Yo lo defino como el sufrimiento de no poder amar. En un punto, en un instante del espacio y del tiempo infinitos, un ser espiritual tiene la posibilidad, mediante su aparición en la tierra, de decirse: 'Existo y amo'. Sólo por una vez se le ha concedido un momento de amor activo y viviente. Para este fin se le ha dado la vida terrestre, de tiempo limitado.”
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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.