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"I'm so exhausted I might not be able to read this in time before the library wants it back, or before my book club meeting, but it's interesting. I have a bit of a hard time understanding it." — Jan 31, 2025 03:46PM
"I'm so exhausted I might not be able to read this in time before the library wants it back, or before my book club meeting, but it's interesting. I have a bit of a hard time understanding it." — Jan 31, 2025 03:46PM
“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. ”
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“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.”
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
― The Politics of Experience/The Bird of Paradise
“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― No Longer Human
― No Longer Human
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