Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian journalist, novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

Wisdom & Quotes

• We degrade Providence too much by attributing our ideas to it out of annoyance at being unable to understand it.

- The Idiot

• Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

- Notes from Underground

• I want to travel in Europe… I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard.

- The Brothers Karamazov

• Our fatal troika (modern Russia) dashes on in her headlong flight, perhaps to destruction.

- The Brothers Karamazov

• Originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

- A diary of a Writer

Charles Baudelaire