NOTES D’UN SOUTERRAIN - FEDOR DOSTOÏEVSKI

L’homme du souterrain est un solitaire, un misanthrope, qui se veut lucide et intransigeant. Mais homme du paradoxe, il s’avoue lui-même la victime du labyrinthe qu’il a lui-même tissé…ployant sous le mécanisme de passivité-agressivité dont il est dépendant, il se reconnaît comme la victime consciente de la jouissance de la souffrance.

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” 

“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.” 

“I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.” 

“You don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what I call free will”