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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

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The Plague

by Albert Camus

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Kingdom Come

by J.G. Ballard

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“It is extremely beautiful to belong to a woman, to give yourself. Don’t laugh if I sound foolish. But to love a woman, you see, to abandon yourself to her, to absorb her completely and feel absorbed by her, that is not what you call ‘being in love,’ which you mock a little. For me it is the road to life, the way toward the meaning of life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

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“the more revolutionary a philosophy is, the more it is likely to be revolted against, precisely because it sets dramatic challenges. But”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

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“From the mid-1940s, ‘existentialist’ was used as shorthand for anyone who practised free love and stayed up late dancing to jazz music. As the actor and nightclubber Anne-Marie Cazalis remarked in her memoirs, ‘If you were twenty, in 1945, after four years of Occupation, freedom also meant the freedom to go to bed at 4 or 5 o’clock in the morning.’ It meant offending your elders and defying the order of things. It could also mean mingling promiscuously with different races and classes. The philosopher Gabriel Marcel heard a lady on a train saying, ‘Sir, what a horror, existentialism! I have a friend whose son is an existentialist; he lives in a kitchen with a Negro woman!’ The”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

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“for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse.”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

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“This life is back to front. It’s terrible, unendurable. . . . No one comes back from the dead, no one has come into the world without crying. No one asks when you want to enter the world, no one asks when you want to leave . . . How empty and meaningless life is. We bury a person; follow him to the grave, throw three shovels of dirt over him. We drive out in a coach and drive back in a coach, and console ourselves with the thought of our own long lives. But really, how long is three score and ten? Why not just get it over with straight away? Why not stay out there, hop down into the grave ourselves and draw lots to see who has the bad luck to be the last one alive, the one to throw the last three shovels of dirt over the last dead person? (Either/Or, 1843) In”
― Robert Ferguson, Life Lessons From Kierkegaard

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