From Notes from Underground : “Man loves creating and the making of roads, that is indisputable. But why does he so passionately love destruction and chaos as well? Tell me that! . . . Can it be that he has such a love of destruction and chaos . . . because he is instinctively afraid of achieving the goal and completing the edifice he is creating? How do you know, maybe he likes the edifice only from far off, and by no means up close; maybe he only likes creating it, and not living in it, leaving it afterwards aux animaux domestiques , such as ants, sheep, and so on and so forth. Now, ants have totally different tastes. They have a remarkable edifice of the same word, forever indestructible – the anthill.”
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