". . . to be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease." (Notes from the Underground)
"When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?" (Notes from the Underground)
"For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?" (Notes from the Underground)
"Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms." (Crime and Punishment)
"You laugh at your dream's absurdities, and at the same time you feel that in the fabric of those absurdities some thought is hidden, but a thought that is real, something belonging to your actual life, something that exists and has always existed in your heart." (The Idiot)
"If there is no God, then I am God." (The Possessed [Kirilov])
"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship." (The Brothers Karamazov)
"In an abstract love for humanity one almost always loves only oneself." [lost source!]
"The complete atheist stands on the penultimate step to most perfect faith." [lost source!]
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