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“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
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“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
― La volgarità in letteratura
― La volgarità in letteratura
Aly’s 2025 Year in Books
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