It was evident, from only one glance at Dostoevsky, that he was a
terribly nervous and impressionable person. He was slender, short,
fair-haired, with a sickly complexion; his small gray eyes darted
somewhat uneasily from object to object, and his colorless lips were
nervously contorted.
- Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849, Joseph Frank
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