“Que Dios te guarde, querido Alexei, de pedir perdón a la mujer amada. Por muy mal que te hayas portado con ella, no le pidas perdón. Tú no sabes cómo son las mujeres. Yo sí que lo sé. Si reconoces tus errores y les dices: 'Perdóname, me he equivocado', en el acto recibirás una granizada de reproches. Nunca obtendrás el perdón sencilla y francamente. Primero, la mujer te humillará, te reprochará faltas que no has cometido, y sólo entonces te dará el perdón. La mejor de ellas no pasará por alto tus más insignificantes errores. Hasta ese extremo llega la ferocidad de las mujeres, de todos esos ángeles sin los cuales no podemos vivir.”
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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.