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“But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. I”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“I think man will never renounce real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground

“He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to drop words and whole sentences and still arrive at the cold conclusion.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground