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“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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“Dostoevsky, too, had lived a dismal and hard life. The czar sent him to a prison camp in Siberia in 1849. Dostoevsky was accused of writing socialist propaganda. He was eventually pardoned and wrote stories to ward off his creditors. Just like in the early '70s I wrote albums to ward off mine.”
― Chronicles, Volume One
― Chronicles, Volume One
“I repeat, crime is too common a refuge for such untalented, impatient and greedy nonentities”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“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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Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
482 books
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5 friends
2,286 books
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46 friends
101 books
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1,455 friends
580 books
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25 friends
436 books
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52 friends
195 books
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15 friends
984 books
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196 friends
259 books
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233 friends
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