Notes from the Underground, White Nights, the Dreams of a Ridiculous Man and Selections from the House of the Dead Quotes

“He will even desire what is most harmful to himself… simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground, White Nights, the Dreams of a Ridiculous Man and Selections from the House of the Dead