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“The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.”
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Snow Country
― Snow Country
“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.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
“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.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“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.”
― The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia
― The Impossible: A Story of Rats followed by Dianus and by The Oresteia
Existentialism
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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
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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
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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
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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
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