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“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
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“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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“He is not one: he is afraid. What is he afraid of? When you want to understand something you stand in front of it, alone, without help: all the past in the world is of no use. Then it disappears and what you wanted to understand disappears with it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”
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Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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269 books
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195 books
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715 books
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271 books
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101 books
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46 friends
656 books
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55 friends
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