Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski (November 11, 1821-February 9, 1881) was a Russian writer. His works rank with Tolstoi as masterpieces of the psychological novel. He was sentence by the czar to ten years of hard labor in Siberia as a result of his revolutionary involvement. This provided him with great insight upon which to write on the human spirit and suffering. His works include: Crime and Punishment, 1866; The Idiot, 1868-69; The Possessed, 1869- 72; in addition to The House of the Dead; Insulted and the Injured; and Memoirs from Underground.
In his work, Brothers Karamazov, written 1879-80, Dostoevski wrote:
<If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.> 1821FD001
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1821FD001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, 1879-1880, in Brothers Karamazov, Book II, Chapter 6, (translated by Constance Garnett). John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 581.