Human Condition


The Stranger
Man's Search for Meaning
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Metamorphosis
Lord of the Flies
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
1984
The Book Thief
Heart of Darkness
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Siddhartha
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
David Eagleman
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Franz Kafka
But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak
Franz Kafka, The Trial

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