FYODOR MIKHAILOVICH DOSTOYEVSKY

11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881
Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846 when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.

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"The soul is
healed by being
with children.

Beauty is mysterious
as well as terrible.
God and devil are
fighting there, and
the battlefield is the
heart of man.

A real gentleman,
even if he loses
everything he owns,
must show no emotion.
Money must be so far
beneath a gentleman
that it is hardly worth
troubling about.

Happiness
does not lie
in happiness,
but in the
achievement
of it."