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Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

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Fear and Trembling

by Søren Kierkegaard

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"hoping my philosophy class doesn't kill me with this one... wish me luck 🥲" — May 04, 2026 06:14PM

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Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

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“This is what I mean when I say that man is condemned to be free: condemned, because he did not create himself, yet nonetheless free, because once cast into the world, he is responsible for everything that he does.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

tags: existence, existentialism, mankind

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“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life

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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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“Contrary to popular belief, the majority of people on welfare in the 1980s and 1990s were not trapped in an endless “cycle of dependency” but rather used the aid to rebound from temporary misfortune: job loss, a family crisis.”
― Brian Goldstone, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

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