The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

01 I am a ridiculous man. Nowadays they call me mad. 02 All of a sudden, I realised that it would not matter to me whether the world existed or whether there was nothing at all anywhere. I began to intuit and sense with all my being, that there was nothing around me . 03 Suddenly, I noticed in one of these spaces a tiny star and began watching it intently. That was because that tiny star had given…