FAVORITE QUOTS. from Fyodor DOSTOEVSKY-- ======== ===== ========== ". . . to be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease." (_Notes_from_the_Underground_ 1.2) * * * * * * "When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?" (_Notes_from_the_ _Underground_ 1.7) * * * * * * "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_ 1.8) * * * * * * "'Little minnow,' she says, 'you are my little minnow!'" (_Crime_ and_Punishment_ 1.2 [Marmeladov's wife]) * * * * * * "Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms." (_Crime_and_Punishment_ 3.1) * * * * * * "'. . . tell them I went to America.'" (_Crime_and_Punishment_ 6.6 [Svidrigailov]) * * * * * * "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_ 3.10) * * * * * * "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_ 2.5.5) * * * * * * "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!] ======== | --:--tcg )