Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Pero de momento son indispensables una o dos generaciones de libertinaje. De libertinaje monstruoso, procaz, del género que hace de un hombre un bellaco asqueroso, cobarde, cruel y egoísta. ¡Eso es lo que se necesita! Y, además, un poco de «sangre fresca» para ir acostumbrándonos. (...)Proclamaremos la destrucción… porque…, ¡porque es una idea fascinante! Pero es preciso, sí, desentumecer los músculos… Provocaremos incendios… Haremos circular algunas leyendas… Cualquier grupo ruin nos será útil… Y en esos mismos grupos encontraré para usted individuos tan dispuestos a todo que se alegrarán de enzarzarse a tiros y hasta lo tendrán a mucha honra. En fin, armaremos un zafarrancho. ¡Habrá un bochinche como el mundo no lo ha visto hasta ahora…! Rusia se verá sumida en tinieblas, la tierra llorará por sus antiguos dioses…”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
from Demons
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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.