Actual praise for Dostoevsky's works of genius.

“It is directly obvious that he [Dostoevsky] is the greatest writer ever born.”
- Virginia Woolf

"Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss!"
- Albert Einstein

“I never saw the man, and never had any direct relations with him, and suddenly when he died I realized that he was the very closest, dearest, and most necessary man for me.”
- Leo Tolstoy

“ [He is] the only person who has ever taught me anything about psychology.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“…there is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life. It’s The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

Meme praise for Dostoevsky's works of genius.