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“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his bliss, as on a sea...and even then every man, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer libel, would play you some loathsome trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive rationality his fatal fantastic element...simply in order to prove to himself that men still are men and not piano keys.”
― Notes from Underground & The Grand Inquisitor
― Notes from Underground & The Grand Inquisitor
“the whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano-key!”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
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