Sunday, January 17, 2016

Notes from Underground




“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”




“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”


“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”






“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”



“I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.”



“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”



“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”



“Can a man of perception respect himself at all?”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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