Was Fyodor Dostoevsky a robot?
>>37825669
He was a yuge cuck.
I am starting to really identify as the underground man from his book Notes from the Underground.
>>37825678
He actually wasn't. He was not well known during his time and went to a gulag for several years. Came out and married. Tried to have a kid but the child died early so did the wife
>We are all divorced from life, we are all cripples, every one of us, more or less. We are so divorced from it that we feel at once a sort of loathing for real life, and so cannot bear to be reminded of it. Why, we have come almost to looking upon real life as an effort, almost as hard work, and we are all privately agreed that it is better in books
>I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.
>An intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.
He also mentions how he envies the normie of the 19th century but at the same time hates him
>>37825705
One of my favourite books. Need to reread it.
>The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful', the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more ready I was to sink in it altogether
>>37825734
He didn't go to the Gulags, he lived in Russia before it became the Soviet Union.
No, just intelligent individual capable of self-reflection.