Notes From Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Random House UK
"The apology and confession of a minor mid-19th century Russian official, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, is a half-desperate, half-mocking political critique and a powerful, at times absurdly comical, account of man's breakaway from society and descent 'undeground'"
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“... people only count their misfortunes; their good luck they take no account of. But if they were to take everything into account, as they should, they'd find that they had their fair share of it.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski
“Once it's been proved to you that you're descended from an ape, it's no use pulling a face; just accept it. Once they've proved to you that a single droplet of your own fat must be dearer to you than a hundred thousand of your fellow human beings and consequently that all so-called virtues and duties are nothing but ravings and prejudices, then accept that too, because there's nothing to be done.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski