Notes From The Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Part I.
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The Unseemly Trick of Man
"I believe in it, I answer for it," he says. "The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key." He adds: 'If you say that all this too can be calculated and tabulated chaos and darkness and curses so that the mere possibility of calculating it all beforehand would stop it all', then man would purposely go mad just to gain his point. It may be at the cost of his skin, it may be by cannibalism,. And this being so, can one help being tempted to rejoice that it is not yet come off? That desire still depends on something we don't know
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