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“Vladimir: What do we do now? Estragon: Wait. Vladimir: Yes, but while waiting. Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection. Estragon: (highly excited). An erection! Vladimir: With all that follows. Where it falls mandrakes grow. That's why they shriek when you pull them up. Did you not know that? Estragon: Let's hang ourselves immediately!”     ―  Samuel Beckett,  Waiting for Godot © Photograph by ThoughtCo.

“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” ―   Fyodor Dostoevsky ,  The Idiot      F yodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow, Russia in 1821. Writer and novelist of major works that depict psychological profundity. " He specialized in the analysis of pathological states of mind that lead to insanity, murder, and suicide and in the exploration of the emotions of humiliation, self-destruction, tyrannical domination, and murderous rage"( Encyclopædia Britannica , 2020). Author of White Nights (1848), The Idiot (1869), Crime and punishment (1866), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Dostoyevsky exploits profound and potent mental and psychological downfalls that man is constantly exposed to. © Photo by Wikipedia