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“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
― Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
“You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more faces, more expressions: on every new face you encounter, it prints the old forms, for each one it finds the most suitable mask.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“_ რა არის სიცოცხლე?
_ სიცოცხლე სევდა არის, ადამიანად ყოფნის ტკბილი სევდა.
_ სიკვდილი?
_ სიკვდილიც სევდა არის, ადამიანად არყოფნის სევდა.”
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_ სიცოცხლე სევდა არის, ადამიანად ყოფნის ტკბილი სევდა.
_ სიკვდილი?
_ სიკვდილიც სევდა არის, ადამიანად არყოფნის სევდა.”
―
“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”
― The Street of Crocodiles
― The Street of Crocodiles
“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
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Lali’s 2025 Year in Books
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