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Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.0
"is it possible to be perfectly candid with oneself and not be afraid of the whole truth?"
Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes, Donald A. Cress
4.0
"Thought exists; it alone cannot be separated from me. I am; I exist—this is certain. But for how long? For as long as I am thinking; for perhaps it could also come to pass that if I were to cease all thinking I would then utterly cease to exist.
For since I now know that even bodies are not, properly speaking, perceived by the senses or by the faculty of imagination, but by the intellect alone, and that they are not perceived through their being touched or seen, but only through their being understood, I manifestly know that nothing can be perceived more easily and more evidently than my own mind.
I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand."
For since I now know that even bodies are not, properly speaking, perceived by the senses or by the faculty of imagination, but by the intellect alone, and that they are not perceived through their being touched or seen, but only through their being understood, I manifestly know that nothing can be perceived more easily and more evidently than my own mind.
I should never judge anything that I do not clearly and distinctly understand."
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
4.0
"On the surface, I laughed cheerfully and entertained people, while all the time my heart was dark and brooding." nothing describes me more