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Dostoyevsky as in: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I'd often heard Boris and my father, in their arm-waving "intellectual talks," discussing the many celebrated gamblers in Russian history: Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, other names I didn't know.† (source)
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Another masterly description of how existential choice springs from inner need and despair can be found in Dostoyevsky's great novel Crime and Punishment.† (source)
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He never lived to see his dreams fulfilled, but when I thumb through his old brown briefcase filled with his paperwork from forty-five years ago, the notes and papers he left behind reveal a man in constant thought: references to Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jackie Robinson, and notebooks upon notebooks filled with sermons and Bible verses.† (source)
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Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)† (source)
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He said that everything there was to know about life was in The Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky.† (source)
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Somewhere in the recumbent solitudes, the motionless but teeming millions of books, lost in two dozen turns right, three dozen turns left, down aisles, through doors, toward dead ends, locked doors, half-empty shelves, somewhere in the literary soot of Dickens's London, or Dostoevsky's Moscow or the steppes beyond, somewhere in the vellumed dust of atlas or Geographic, sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.† (source)
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Dostoevsky?† (source)
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The works he admired most were Dante's; those he despised most were Dostoyevsky's.† (source)
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—Fyodor Dostoevsky Wallowa Lake State Park in Oregon and its surrounding area has been well referred to as the Little Switzerland of America.† (source)
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Notes from the Underground FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY PART I Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary.† (source)
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I was taking one of I hose honors programs that teach you to think independently, and except for a course in Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and a seminar in advanced poetry composition, I would spend my whole time writing on some obscure theme in the works of James Joyce.† (source)
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Straight out of Dostoyevsky.† (source)
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From "The Grand Inquisitor", The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)† (source)
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky PART I Book I. The History Of A Family Chapter I. Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place.† (source)
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Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov† (source)
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Though she never mastered the art of cooking—my mother should have been banned from the kitchen—she spoke four languages and could quote Dostoyevsky in Russian; she was an accomplished classical pianist and had attended the University of Vienna at a time when female students were rare.† (source)
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