" Tolstoy was obsessed with truth, but only told it in his novels. Dostoyevsky, obsessed not with truth but with God, was a compulsive gambler. He pawned his watch so many times that his saintly second wife said she never knew what time it was. "

― Sara Wheeler , Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age