Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich(also Fedor Dostoevsky)

Russian novelist

wrote novels "Notes from the Underground" 1864, "Crime and Punishment" 1866, "The Idiot" 1868-1869, "The Possessed" 1871, "The Brothers Karamazov" 1880

• "If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
• "Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
• "Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
• "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."
• "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."