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''Now I ask you: what can be expected of man since he is a being en

dowed with such strange qualities? Shower upon him every earthly

blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bub

bles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperi

ty, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes

and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then

out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty

trick.  
  
He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire

the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to

introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element.

It is just his fantastic dreams, his vulgar folly that he will desire to

retain, simply in order to prove to himself—as though that were so

necessary—that men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which

the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one

will be able to desire nothing but by the calendar.'' - an excerpt from 'The Notes from Underground' by Dostoyevsky

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