Saturday, April 23, 2011

The mystery of human existence

"For the mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. Without a concrete idea of what he is living for, man would refuse to live, would rather exterminate himself than remain on earth, even though everywhere around him was bread."
--from "The Grand Inquisitor" in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 

The Brothers Karamazov


(1879–1880)

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