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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

Book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 2 quotes · Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground, Despair

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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead Quotes

“May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed...”

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“Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even it if goes wrong, it lives.”

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