#notes from underground

If desire should absolutely align with reason at some point then we will reason and not want, essentially because it will

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In the face of the impossible … they submit themselves at once. The impossible – meaning the stone wall? Which stone wall? Well,...

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Even in despair there are the most burning pleasures, especially when you are already very strongly conscious of

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Frazzled nerves and above all exaggeration… I was always conscious of this little weak spot and sometimes I have been very

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too,

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At home, I read more than anything. I wanted to deaden all that was constantly boiling inside me with external sensations.

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Man is an animal, for the most part a creative one, prone to striving for a goal consciously and to engaging in the arts

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The more the evening wore on and the twilight grew denser, the more my impressions changed and became confused, and my

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Suffering – well, it is the sole determinant of consciousness. I did, though, set out at the beginning that consciousness, in

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I just finished telling you that I am not ashamed of my poverty; but you should know that I am ashamed, I am ashamed of it

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Why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive—in other words, only what is

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- Fyodor Dostoyevsky...

And with love one can live even without happiness. Life is good even in sorrow, it’s good to live in the world, no matter how.

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At home, to begin with, I mainly used to read. I wished to stifle with external sensations all that was ceaselessly boiling

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