ritwickpri on Nostr: “You thirst for life and yet you try to solve life's problems with muddled logic. ...

“You thirst for life and yet you try to solve life's problems with muddled logic. And how tiresome, how impudent your outbursts are - and at the same time how frightened you are! You talk nonsense and are happy with it. You come out with insolent remarks, yet you constantly fear for the consequences and apologize. You assure us that you are afraid of nothing yet you come crawling for our approval. You assure us that your teeth are clenched and at the same time you crack jokes in order to amuse us. You know that your jokes are not very witty, but you're evidently satisfied with their literary merit. Perhaps you really have had to suffer at times, but you have no respect whatsoever for your suffering. There is even truth in you, but no integrity; out of the pettiest vanity you carry your truth to the marketplace to be paraded in public and put to shame…You really do want to say something, but from fear you conceal your last word, since you haven't the resolve to say it, only craven impudence. You boast of your consciousness, but all you do is vacillate, since although your brain is functioning your heart is darkened by depravity and without a pure heart there can never be full, authentic consciousness. And how importunate you are, how pushy, how pretentious! Lies, lies and more lies!”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground