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It was bad enough that he drove a taxi for a living, but a philosophical taxi driver who dressed in army-navy clothes and carried a paunch around his middle was a bit too much to ask.
“Nothing is less relevant to a work of art than the judgments of other people.”
― Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
― Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
“Ah, friendship! So this is the glue that holds people together—this warmth, this loneliness-dispelling state of mind.”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
“You are as much as you know, and a wise person can do anything. A person without knowledge is a world in darkness.”
― How to Use Your Enemies
― How to Use Your Enemies
“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams....”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
“There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies—which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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Vanja’s 2025 Year in Books
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