“هكذا حال النفوس الرومانسية دائما، تظل حتى آخر لحظة تزين الناس بريش الطاووس. تظل حتى آخر لحظة تفترض الخير لا الشر، ورغم تصورها وجود الشر فإنها لا يمكن أن تعترف بذلك لنفسها بحال من الأحوال. أن تصور هذا الشر وحده يصدمها ويهزها هزاً قوياً. فهي بيديها تحجب وجهها حتى لا ترى الحقيقة، إلى أن يأتي الإنسان الذي زينته بريش ملون من خيالها فيصفع وجهها ويدمي أنفها بيده نفسها !”
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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.