Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian essayist and novelist who notably explored human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th c. Russia. Key works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881) was a Russian essayist and novelist who notably explored human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th c. Russia. Key works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).


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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) was a French writer, philosopher and political activist. She is known for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.
The Second Sex

1984
1984

Delta of Venus
Delta of Venus

A Room of one's own
A Room of One’s Own