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“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (1864), Part 1, Ch. 9 (translation by Constance Garnett)

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About Fyodor Dostoevsky

1821 – 1881

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

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