Literature Moment 2

"It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become anything; neither spiteful nor kind, neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything. . . .

You imagine no doubt, gentlemen, that I want to amuse you. You are mistaken in that, too."

Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky