Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Quant à moi, j’étais tout à fait tranquille sur mon sort. Moi aussi, j’aimais passionnément mon art ; mais je savais dès le commencement de ma carrière que je resterais, au sens littéral du mot, un ouvrier de l’art. En revanche, je suis fier de ne pas avoir enfoui, comme l’esclave paresseux, ce que m’avait donné la nature, et, au contraire, de l’avoir augmenté considérablement. Et si on loue mon jeu impeccable, si l’on vante ma technique, tout cela je le dois au travail ininterrompu, à la conscience nette de mes forces, à l’éloignement que j’eus toujours pour l’ambition, la satisfaction de soi-même et la paresse, conséquence de cette satisfaction.”
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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.