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MalNich is Currently Reading

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The First World War

by John Keegan

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

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MalNich’s Quotes

“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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“It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

tags: anti-capitalism, apocalypse, capitalism, capitalist-realism, fiction, imagination, pop-culture, realism

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“Gold is the money of kings, silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves.”
― Norm Franz, Money & Wealth in the New Millennium: A Prophetic Guide to the New World Economic Order

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“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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“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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