The worst thing is that you betrayed yourself for nothing

“Out of sheer ingratitude, man will play you a dirty trick, just to prove that men are still men and not piano keys... even if he has to pay for it with his own skin.”

“To Dostoevsky, our desire for independent agency is so strong that we will actively choose chaos, pain, and self-betrayal just to prove we are not keyboard keys being played by laws of nature”

“reducing humans to formulas strips us of what makes us human: our free will”