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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
“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
“It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause”
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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
“I repeat, crime is too common a refuge for such untalented, impatient and greedy nonentities”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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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