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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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“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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“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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“I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

tags: death, depression, dying, fear, future, life, living, sadness

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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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