Sudha Hariharan’s Reviews > Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead > Status Update

". You see, the direct, legitimate, immediate result of consciousness is inertia, that is the conscious sitting idly by with one’s arms folded. I’ve referred to this before. I repeat, I repeat emphatically: all spontaneous men and men of action are so active precisely because they’re stupid and limited."