Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Pero cuanto más conciencia tomaba Emma de su amor, más lo reprimía para que no se notara y para que disminuyese. Le hubiera gustado que Léon lo adivinara; e imaginaba casualidades, catástrofes que hubieran propiciado tal circunstancia. Lo que sin duda la retenía era la pereza o el miedo, y también el pudor. Pensaba que había ido demasiado lejos en su rechazo, que ya no era tiempo, que todo estaba perdido. Pero luego, el orgullo, la satisfacción de decirse a sí misma: «Soy virtuosa» y de contemplarse en el espejo con talante resignado, la consolaba en cierto modo del sacrificio que creía estar haciendo.”
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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.