WORDS FROM A GREAT MIND

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Novelist & essayist

Born: 11 November 1821
Died: 9 February 1881
Lived in: Moscow, Siberia & Saint Petersburg

Fyodor Dostoevsky was a Russian novelist and essayist whose books explore guilt, faith, freedom, humiliation, and moral choice. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov.

A LESSER-KNOWN DETAIL

In 1849 he faced a firing squad after months in prison, only to receive a last-minute reprieve. The staged execution and years of penal servitude that followed marked his life and fiction.

Words by Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself.”

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“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

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“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.”

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