“Merciful Heavens! but what do I care for the laws of nature and arithmetic, when, for some reason I dislike those laws and the fact that twice two makes four? Of course I cannot break through the wall by battering my head against it if I really have not the strength to knock it down, but I am not going to be reconciled to it simply because it is a stone wall and I have not the strength.”
Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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