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“It’s perfectly clear to me now that it was I who, owing to my boundless vanity, and hence also my exactingness towards myself, very often looked upon myself with furious dissatisfaction, reaching the point of loathing, and therefore mentally attributed my view to everyone else.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“I also once had a friend. But I was already a despot in my soul; I walked to have unlimited power over his soul; I wanted to instill in him a contempt for his surrounding milieu; I demanded of him a haughty and final break with that milieu. I frightened him with my passionate friendship; I drove him to tears, to convulsions; he was a naive, self giving soul; but once he had given himself wholly to me, I immediately started to hate him and pushed him away- as if I had needed him only to gain a victory over him, only to bring him to submission.”
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