Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (c. 1821-1881)

“At any rate, civilisation has made man, if not more bloodthirsty, then certainly more hideously and more contemptibly bloodthirsty.”

  • From Notes from the Underground (Part 1, section 7) by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by David Magarshack (Modern Library, 1992).

 

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