To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
— Nothingness. Non-existence. Black emptiness.
— What did you say?
— Oh, I was just planning my future.
— Remember that nice boy next door? Raskolnikov?
— Yeah?
— He killed two ladies.
— No! What a nasty story.
— Bobick told it to me. He heard it from one of the Karamazov brothers.
— He must have been possessed.
— Well, he was a raw youth.
— Raw youth? He was an idiot.
— And he acted insulted and injured.
— I hear he was a gambler.
— You know, he could be your double.
— Really? How novel.
Don't get me wrong, I love him like a brother. Just not one of mine.
— Are you suggesting passive resistance?
— No, I'm suggesting active fleeing.
— Come to my quarters tomorrow at three.
— I can't.
— Please!
— It's immoral. What time?
— Who is to say what is moral?
— Morality is subjective.
— Subjectivity is objective.
— Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.
— Not as an essential extension of ontological existence.
— Can we not talk about sex so much?
— One, two! One, two! One, two!
— Three is next, if you're having any trouble.
— Sex without love is an empty experience.
— Yes, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
— You're a tyrant and a dictator and you start wars.
— Why is he reciting my credits?
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