Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Žalim, što vam ne mogu kazati ništa utešnije, jer delatna ljubav, kad se uporedi sa ljubavlju sanjalačkom — stvar je surova i strahotna. Ljubav sanjalačka čezne za brzim podvigom, koji se brzo zadovolji; ona čezne za tim da je svi posmatraju. I zbilja se ide dotle, da neko čak i život žrtvuje, samo da stvar ne traje dugo, nego da se što brže svrši, kao na pozornici, i da ga svi gledaju i hvale. A ljubav delatna — to je posao i izdržljivost, a za neke je ona prosto čitava nauka...”
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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.