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“Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.”
― Anais Nin

tags: civilization, inspiration, revolution

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“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: siddhartha

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“You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.”
― Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.”
― Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

tags: misattributed-to-tom-stoppard

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Existentialism — 925 members — last activity Jan 03, 2021 11:51AM
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that claims that individual human beings have full responsibility for creating the meanings of their own li ...more

Secret History — 46 members — last activity May 02, 2012 02:06AM
Secret Histories, crypto-thrillers and occult fantasies. These are books that purport to tell us the secret history of the world through a fantastic l ...more

Soundtracks for Books & Characters — 38 members — last activity Sep 18, 2018 06:40PM
This is a place to talk about how listening to music relates to books and characters we read about. Do you have a particular album or song associated ...more

Transgressive Fiction — 1344 members — last activity Aug 14, 2025 05:26PM
wikipedia: "Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and w ...more