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Fyodor Dostoevsky
1821 – 1881 · Russian Novelist
Dostoevsky was arrested for political subversion, stood before a firing squad, and received a last-second reprieve, a mock execution designed to break him. It didn't. He spent the next thirty years writing novels that mapped the darkest corridors of the human soul.
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VIR-I-0012“I've been dishonest in small ways for so long I don't know where the line is anymore.”APX-IV-0015“I've been letting fear of judgment stop me from acting like myself.”CTL-VII-0017“I'm stuck in a job that drains me but I can't leave yet.”CTL-VII-0019“I let envy push me into a decision I regret.”DTH-XII-0006“I want to leave something behind for the people who come after me.”APX-VI-0037“My diagnosis is real, but I've started hiding my whole life behind it.”APX-VI-0038“I blame my marriage for the dreams I gave up, but I'm the one who gave them up.”CTL-VIII-0038“I'm furious and halfway through a text I know I'll regret.”DTH-X-0053“I built the wealth I wanted and now I'm out of healthy years to enjoy it.”VIR-I-0054“I was winning the argument and admitted I was actually wrong.”