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“A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream?”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877)

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About Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821 – 1881

Russian novelist, author of 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.

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