Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

whoever can pride himself on his diseases and even swagger over them? Though, after all, every one does do that; people do pride themselves on their diseases, and I do, may be, more than any one.

Oh, absurdity of absurdities! How much better it is to understand it all, to recognize it all, all the impossibilities and the stone wall;

Says everything and nothing really. Inside the mind of the bumbling cynic.