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No novelist ever wrestled with materialism more fiercely and intelligently than Dostoevsky.” —Jonathan Franzen
“The only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“The novels of Dostoevsky are seething whirlpools, gyrating sandstorms, waterspouts which hiss and boil and suck us in. They are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn in, whirled round, blinded, suffocated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading.” —Virginia Woolf
“The real nineteenth-century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.” —Albert Camus
“Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!” —Albert Einstein
