A Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Russian - Novelist
November 11, 1821 - February 9, 1881

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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