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MalNich is Currently Reading

MalNich is currently reading

The First World War

by John Keegan

bookshelves: europe, history, non-fiction, world-war, currently-reading

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MalNich’s Quotes

“The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]”
― Alberto Moravia, Agostino

tags: coming-of-age, italian-translation, puberty

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“Russian stories never have happy endings.”
― Bill Browder, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

tags: dark-humor, russia

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“What is yarusenai?
It's that one email you never replied to and will never open. It's the bad advice you gave and the phone call you should have made and everything that came out of it. It's thinking about the friends that you suspect you might have been able to save.”
― Jake Adelstein, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

tags: japan, japanese, sad-quotes

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“What was the use of seeing things clearly if the only thing clarity brought was a new and deeper darkness?”
― Alberto Moravia, Agostino

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“The pandemic of mental anguish that afflicts our time cannot be properly understood, or healed, if viewed as a private problem suffered by damaged individuals.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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