“¿Sabes lo que me estaba diciendo hace un instante? Que si hubiera perdido la fe en la vida, si dudara de la mujer amada y del orden universal y estuviera convencido de que este mundo no sino un caos infernal y maldito, si fuera golpeado por todos los horrores de la decepción humana, aun entonces no sentiría menos ganas de vivir. Después de haber gustado el elixir de la vida, no dejaría la copa hasta haberla apurado.”
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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.