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The Spirit of Science Fiction

by Roberto Bolaño

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Being and Nothingness

by Jean-Paul Sartre

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“He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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“As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: absurdism, absurdist-fiction

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“The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

tags: cyclops, memoir, naked, sedaris

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“To be radical is to grasp things by the root.”
― Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

tags: radical

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“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
― Jacques Lacan

tags: lovers

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