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“When I despise myself, I tell myself, in order to shore up my confidence, that after all, I have managed to maintain myself in being or in a semblance of being, with a perception of things that very few could have endured.”
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“If one were at every moment conscious of what one knew - if, for example, the sentiment of foundationlessness were both continual and intense - one would kill oneself or allow oneself to slip into imbecility. One exits thanks to the moments when one forgets certain truths.”
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“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
“In the gamut of creatures, only man inspires a sustained disgust.”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
“And this nothing, this everything, cannot give life a meaning, but it nonetheless makes life persevere in what it is: a state of non-suicide.”
― A Short History of Decay
― A Short History of Decay
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Stone Bridge Press was established in Berkeley, California, in 1989. We now have some 150 titles in print, covering such Japan-related areas as langua ...more
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