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this guy’s so embarrassing man, i like him

“it’s perfectly clear to me 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.”

“and yet i’m certain that man will never renounce real suffering, that is, destruction and chaos. suffering — why, this is the sole cause of consciousness. though i did declare at the beginning that consciousness, in my opinion, is man’s greatest misfortune, still i know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfactions.”

“i even think the best definition of a man is: a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful.”

i love how it’s just dostoevsky debating amongst himself while pretending he is debating you, the reader. he’s also extremely funny. lot of talk of free will, man’s nature, and so on and so forth. really liking it so far, a tad heavy to digest but thus is life.

“i am a sick man… i am a wicked man.”