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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
“but I thought, as I was already standing over the water, that if I've considered myself a strong man all along, then let me not be afraid of shame now”
― 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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“it was as if fog suddenly fell around him and confined him in a hopeless and heavy solitude”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“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
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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