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"the excellent ants began with the ant-hill and with the ant-hill they will most certainly end, which does great credit to their steadfastness and perseverance. but man is a frivolous and unaccountable creature, and perhaps, like a chess-player, he is only fond of the process of achieving his aim, but not of the aim itself."
notes from underground, fyodor dostoevsky. 1864.
notes from underground, fyodor dostoevsky. 1864.
posted by jessalauren at 4:54 PM
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i have. i took a course on dostoevsky last semester so i had to read all of his major works. crime and punishment was really good, but certain parts like the mare dream and the murder scenes were so intense, i found it hard to read. that's not to say that the writing wasn't amazing.
so wierd. i would probably go crazy too if i saw something like that.
well, some people think that dostoevsky was channeling his stories (but i don't really think that's true because he made so many complete revisions of his writing) so maybe he already knew neitzche was going to read it and go crazy *evil laughter*.
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