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| | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
 | | Dostoevsky followed that with Crime and Punishment (1866), the account of a college student who murders his landlady, The Idiot (1868), the tale of a Christ-like figure named Prince Myshkin, and The Possessed (1871), an exploration of philosophical nihilism. |
 | | In 1867, Dostoevsky married Anna Snitkin, his 22-year old stenographer, who apparently was comfortable with her husband’s various moods and manias. |
 | | Dostoevsky once said, "You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. |
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