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“Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desire that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use”
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“The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently...
is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
about falling apart
silently...
is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
“it was as if fog suddenly fell around him and confined him in a hopeless and heavy solitude”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
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The Doomer to Bloomer Pipeline
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In this rapidly changing world, a growing number of people feel out of touch and alienated from the events taking place around them. They feel hopeles ...more
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This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
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