Existential Dread


No Longer Human
The Stranger
Notes from Underground
The Metamorphosis
The Bell Jar
Nausea
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus
Norwegian Wood
Girl, Interrupted
A Short Stay in Hell
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Severance
The Secret History
Milan Kundera
What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to f ...more
Milan Kundera, Slowness

Jeff Vandermeer
He kills the stars.
Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

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