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“If in keeping with Hegel’s insight all feeling related to an aesthetic object has an accidental aspect, usually that of psychological projection, then what the work demands from its beholder is knowledge, and indeed, knowledge that does justice to it: The work wants its truth and untruth to be grasped.”
― Aesthetic Theory
― Aesthetic Theory
“True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.”
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“If God had been like a toad, you could have rid the globe of toads, but when God was like yourself, it was no good being content with stone figures — you had to kill yourself among the graves.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“Perhaps we would not be human if the quality of our lives were much better than it is. It does not follow that the quality of human life is good.”
― The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
― The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
“This is the story of our people. Women coming out of women, coming out of women, coming out of women, coming out of women, in a chain of explosions of life and beauty. But also of endless cruelty. It is an uninterrupted line of goddesses with two faces. One of a child regarding the future, the other of an old woman wearing a tragic mask rent and bleeding from parturition who strains to read our fortune in the stains of our aleatory past.”
― Solenoid
― Solenoid
Philosophy
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Cain S.’s 2025 Year in Books
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