Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.
Fyodor DostoevskyI swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.
Fyodor DostoevskyItโs not God that I donโt accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoevsky