Fyodor DostoyevskyFyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky(November 11, 1821, Moscow, Russia – February 9, 1881, Saint Petersburg, Russia) (aged 59)
Nationality: RussiaUnique distinction: One of the greatest psychologists in the world literature. Genres: Short-story, novel, literary fiction.
Gender: MaleQuotes: 1. To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
2. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
3. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
4. The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence
5. Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
6. If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.
7. I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.
8. Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
9. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!
10. It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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Myshkin's emotional monologue
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