“Living, naturally, is never easy. You continue making the gestures commanded by existence for many reasons, the first of which is habit. Dying voluntarily implies that you have recognized, even instinctively, the ridiculous character of that habit, the absence of any profound reason for living, the insane character of that daily agitation and the uselessness of suffering.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“At the local coffee-shop, hunched in one of the secretive, high-backed booths with hundreds of peoples' names gouged into the wood, we drank cup after cup of black coffee and talked frankly about sex.”
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“Depressive ontology is dangerously seductive because, as the zombie twin of a certain philosophical wisdom, it is half true. As the depressive withdraws from the vacant confections of the lifeworld, he unwittingly finds himself in concordance with the human condition so painstakingly diagrammed by a philosopher like Spinoza: he sees himself as a serial consumer of empty simulations, a junky hooked on every kind of deadening high, a meat puppet of the passions. The depressive cannot even lay claim to the comforts that a paranoiac can enjoy, since he cannot believe that the strings are being pulled by any one. No flow, no connectivity in the depressive’s nervous system.”
― Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
― Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
“The history of the Beast is fulfilled, and in humility it awaits a double death —the physical annihilation and the obliteration of the recollection to itself.”
― Das Untier. Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht
― Das Untier. Konturen einer Philosophie der Menschenflucht
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