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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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Dec 08, 2025 06:57PM

“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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“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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“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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“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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“Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

tags: suicide

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