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""An affirmation is always the affirmation of something, which is to say that the act of affirming is distinct from the thing affirmed. But if we imagined an affirmation in which the affirming is filled up by what is affirmed, that affirmation could not be affirmed - because of the surfeit of plenitude and the noema's immediate inherence within the noesis."" — Apr 02, 2026 12:05PM
""An affirmation is always the affirmation of something, which is to say that the act of affirming is distinct from the thing affirmed. But if we imagined an affirmation in which the affirming is filled up by what is affirmed, that affirmation could not be affirmed - because of the surfeit of plenitude and the noema's immediate inherence within the noesis."" — Apr 02, 2026 12:05PM
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"We went from how opening envelops was a crime to straight up murder. This book keeps surprising me as if the appearance of a past lover straight out of nowhere but there." — Mar 19, 2026 08:25AM
"We went from how opening envelops was a crime to straight up murder. This book keeps surprising me as if the appearance of a past lover straight out of nowhere but there." — Mar 19, 2026 08:25AM
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"I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it." — Apr 02, 2026 12:07PM
"I had learned already never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it." — Apr 02, 2026 12:07PM
“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“Violence makes violence”
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“Me and you, true blue.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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