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kate’s Quotes

“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power

tags: art, beauty, goodness, truth

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“Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.”
― Georges Bataille, The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia

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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

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“For fourteen days, I was unspeakably happy. Unspeakably but not absolutely because, for me, joy never comes without the grief of knowing it is only ephemeral. All happiness carries with it the seed of its own end.”
― Gabrielle Wittkop, The Necrophiliac

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Existentialism — 939 members — last activity Aug 07, 2026 05:00AM
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 — 37 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 — 1385 members — last activity Aug 15, 2026 03:27PM
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