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“the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Michael’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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120 friends
232 books
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45 friends
37 books
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14 books
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2 books
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49 friends
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