"Notes From The Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Kindle edition here.

• "I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious"
• "I refuse to consult a doctor from spite."
• "Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well--let it get worse!"
• "I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it."
• "opposite elements. I knew that they had been swarming in me all my life"
• "Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything."

"The Grand Inquisitor" (from The Brothers Karamazov) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - the Kindle edition.

•          "And blind faith remained alone To lull the trusting heart"

• "vague and undefined promise of freedom, which men, dull and unruly as they are by nature, are unable so much as to understand"

• "never was there anything more unbearable to the human race than personal freedom!"

• "where is there freedom of choice where men are bribed with bread?"

• "Feed us first and then command us to be virtuous!" will be the words written upon the banner"