Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and philosopher, best known for Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. His works probe psychology, morality, and existential questions in 19th-century Russian society.
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Background
- Born in
- Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor
- Educated at
- Military Engineering-Technical UniversityNikolay engineering school
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Trending topics shown first"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for h…"
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
"I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."
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1871
Born
Birth1922
Died
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