Dostoyevsky Quote
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers KaramazovI don’t want to die without any scars. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight ClubNot all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the RingIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – André Gide, Autumn LeavesIf you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something. – Neil Gaiman, Make Good ArtEven a stopped clock is right twice a day. – Paulo Coelho, BridaIf we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.– Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz ElevatorThe worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia PlathI dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik SweetheartIf you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. – John Green, Paper Towns
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers KaramazovI don’t want to die without any scars. – Chuck Palahniuk, Fight ClubNot all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the RingIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. – André Gide, Autumn LeavesIf you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something. – Neil Gaiman, Make Good ArtEven a stopped clock is right twice a day. – Paulo Coelho, BridaIf we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.– Lemony Snicket, The Ersatz ElevatorThe worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia PlathI dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. – Haruki Murakami, Sputnik SweetheartIf you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. – John Green, Paper Towns
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About Dostoyevsky
Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died of tuberculosis on 27 February 1837, when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute (later renamed the Military Engineering-Technical University). After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s, he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into Saint Petersburg's literary circles. However, he was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. Dostoevsky was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around Western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.
Dostoevsky's body of work consists of thirteen novels, three novellas, seventeen short stories, and numerous other works. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia, influencing an equally great number of later writers, including Russians such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the inspiration for many films.