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"I don’t know what any of these words mean and when I do they are not very pleasant to read while eating. Not a breakfast book." — Dec 27, 2025 02:52PM
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"Finished Twilight of the Idols. Since Nietzsche pulls from pretty much all of philosophy and of 19th century German culture, a lot goes over my head. But there is also a lot of gems here. I can also see why he’s known as “edgy”: this is basically a drive-by on the Greeks and Christianity and all our values stemming from them" — Nov 30, 2025 09:29AM
"Finished Twilight of the Idols. Since Nietzsche pulls from pretty much all of philosophy and of 19th century German culture, a lot goes over my head. But there is also a lot of gems here. I can also see why he’s known as “edgy”: this is basically a drive-by on the Greeks and Christianity and all our values stemming from them" — Nov 30, 2025 09:29AM
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“...in real life I always seem to have a hard time winding up a conversation or asking somebody to leave, and sometimes the moment becomes so delicate and fraught with social complexity that I'll get overwhelmed trying to sort out all the different possible ways of saying it and all the different implications of each option and will just sort of blank out and do it totally straight -- 'I want to terminate the conversation and not have you be in my apartment anymore' -- which evidently makes me look either as if I'm very rude and abrupt or as if I'm semi-autistic and have no sense of how to wind up a conversation gracefully...I've actually lost friends this way.”
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
― Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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