“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
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“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.”
― Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
― Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
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