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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


READING LIST ETC.
WRITERS- Atwood, Margaret
- Austen, Jane
- Brontë sisters
- Burton, Sir Richard
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Conrad, Joseph
- Curtis, Adam
- de Cervantes, Miguel
- Dickens, Charles
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Faulkner, William
- Forster, E. M.
- García Márquez
- Greene, Graham
- Hardy, Thomas
- Hemingway, Earnest
- Huxley, Aldous
- Joyce, James
- Kafka, Franz
- Kureishi, Hanif
- Lawrence, D. H.
- Melville, Herman
- Miller, Henry
- Morrison, Toni
- Nin, Anaïs
- Orwell, George
- Proust, Marcel
- Roy, Anuradha
- Rushdie, Salman
- Şafak, Elif
- Seneca
- Smith, Zadie
- Steinbeck, John
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Updike, John
- Waugh, Evelyn
- Wilde, Oscar
- Woolf, Virginia
- Zola, Émile
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POETS- Aesop
- Alighieri, Dante
- Angelou, Maya
- Blake, William
- Byron, Lord
- Catullus, Gaius
- Coleridge, Samuel T.
- Cummings, E. E.
- Dickinson, Emily
- Donne, John
- Dryden, John
- Eliot, T. S.
- Frost, Robert
- Gibran, Kahlil
- Heaney, Seamus
- Homer
- Horace
- Kaur, Rupi
- Keats, John
- Larkin, Philip
- Marlowe, Christopher
- Milton, John
- Ovid
- Plath, Sylvia
- Poe, Edgar Allen
- Pound, Ezra
- Raleigh, Walter
- Rumi
- Sappho
- Sexton, Anne
- Shakespeare, William
- Shelley, Percy
- Silverstein, Shel
- Spenser, Edmund
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Virgil
- Walcott, Derek
- Whitman, Walt
- Wyatt, Thomas
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PHILOSOPHERS- Antisthenes
- Aquinas, Thomas
- Aristotle
- Bacon, Francis
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Cicero
- Confucius
- de Beauvoir, Simone
- Democritus
- Derrida, Jacques
- Descartes, René
- Empedocles
- Epicurus
- Foucault, Michel
- Hegel, Georg
- Heraclitus
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Hume, David
- John Stuart Mill
- Kant, Immanuel
- Kierkegaard, Søren
- Lao-Tzu
- Locke, John
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marx, Karl
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Paine, Tom
- Parmenides
- Plato
- Plotinus
- Pope Gregory I
- Popper, Karl
- Pythagoras
- Rousseau, Jean
- Russell, Bertrand
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Socrates
- Spinoza, Baruch
- St Augustine
- Thales
- Voltaire
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Zeno of Citium
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PSYCHOLOGISTS- Bandura, Albert
- Ekman, Paul
- Erikson, Erik
- Festinger, Leon
- Freud, Sigmund
- Horney, Karen
- James, William
- Johnson, Virginia
- Jung, Carl
- Kahneman, Daniel
- Kinsey, Alfred
- Klein, Melanie
- Pavlov, Ivan
- Piaget, Jean
- Pinker, Steven
- Rogers, Carl
- Skinner, B. F.
- Vygotsky, Lev
POLITICAL FIGURES
- ⅰ Queen Boudica
- ⅱ King Alfred the Great
- ⅲ King Edward I
- ⅳ King Henry V
- ⅴ King Henry VIII
- ⅵ Queen Elizabeth I
- ⅶ King Charles II
- ⅷ Queen Victoria
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Chomsky, Noam
- Columbus, Christopher
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- da Vinci, Leonardo
- Darwin, Charles
- Dawkins, Richard
- Einstein, Albert
- Fukuyama, Francis
- Galilei, Galileo
- Gutenberg, Johannes
- Harari, Yuval
- Hobsbawm, Eric
- Lovelace, Ada
- Michelangelo
- Newton, Isaac
- Saïd, Edward
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