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"Another one of those books that doesn't necessarily answer anything but does list off a bunch of interesting studies and really just underlines the whole basis of the book, taste is difficult to define, malleable, and almost ineffable." — Jul 15, 2026 11:15AM
"Another one of those books that doesn't necessarily answer anything but does list off a bunch of interesting studies and really just underlines the whole basis of the book, taste is difficult to define, malleable, and almost ineffable." — Jul 15, 2026 11:15AM
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"Finally getting to some nitty gritty after a long introduction to the book and then basically 125 pages of definitions. But now he's using those words and if you agree with the definitions it becomes much harder to disagree with all of his claims. And he makes a lot of claims! He's deconstructing man and society. Definitions and deconstruction. Double D's of philosophy. I love it." — Jul 10, 2026 07:06PM
"Finally getting to some nitty gritty after a long introduction to the book and then basically 125 pages of definitions. But now he's using those words and if you agree with the definitions it becomes much harder to disagree with all of his claims. And he makes a lot of claims! He's deconstructing man and society. Definitions and deconstruction. Double D's of philosophy. I love it." — Jul 10, 2026 07:06PM
“Astrology provides a brilliant proof of the miserable subjectivity of human beings, as a result of which they relate everything to themselves and go from every thought in a straight line immediately back to themselves. It relates the course of the great celestial bodies to the pathetic I, as it also connects the comets in the sky with earthly quarrels and shabby tricks.”
― Parerga and Paralipomena
― Parerga and Paralipomena
“I have attended a number of psychological conferences dealing with this whole problem of the difference between the mystical experience and the psychological crack-up. The difference is that the one who cracks up is drowning in the water in which the mystic swims.”
― The Power of Myth
― The Power of Myth
“Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
“There is an Eastern fable, told long ago, of a traveller overtaken on a plain by an enraged beast. Escaping from the beast he gets into a dry well, but sees at the bottom of the well a dragon that has opened its jaws to swallow him. And the unfortunate man, not daring to climb out lest he should be destroyed by the enraged beast, and not daring to leap to the bottom of the well lest he should be eaten by the dragon, seizes s twig growing in a crack in the well and clings to it. His hands are growing weaker and he feels he will soon have to resign himself to the destruction that awaits him above or below, but still he clings on. Then he sees that two mice, a black one and a white one, go regularly round and round the stem of the twig to which he is clinging and gnaw at it. And soon the twig itself will snap and he will fall into the dragon's jaws. The traveller sees this and knows that he will inevitably perish; but while still hanging he looks around, sees some drops of honey on the leaves of the twig, reaches them with his tongue and licks them. So I too clung to the twig of life, knowing that the dragon of death was inevitably awaiting me, ready to tear me to pieces; and I could not understand why I had fallen into such torment. I tried to lick the honey which formerly consoled me, but the honey no longer gave me pleasure, and the white and black mice of day and night gnawed at the branch by which I hung. I saw the dragon clearly and the honey no longer tasted sweet. I only saw the unescapable dragon and mice, and I could not tear my gaze from them. and this is not a fable but the real unanswerable truth intelligible to all. The deception of the joys of life which formerly allayed my terror of the dragon now no longer deceived me. No matter how often I may be told, "You cannot understand the meaning of life so do not think about it, but live," I can no longer do it: I have already done it too long. I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I see, for that alone is true. All else is false. The two drops of honey which diverted my eyes from the cruel truth longer than the rest: my love of family, and of writing -- art as I called it -- were no longer sweet to me. "Family"... said I to myself. But my family -- wife and children -- are also human. They are placed just as I am: they must either live in a lie or see the terrible truth. Why should they live? Why should I love them, guard them, bring them up, or watch them? That they may come to the despair that I feel, or else be stupid? Loving them, I cannot hide the truth from them: each step in knowledge leads them to the truth. And the truth is death.”
― A Confession
― A Confession
“The only way to prepare for a trip like this, I felt, was to dress up like human peacocks and get crazy, then screech off across the desert and cover the story.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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