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“Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.”
― Monogamy
― Monogamy
“Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people.”
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
― Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
“Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.”
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“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as adults, to the grudge against our mothers; the way we never let our mothers of the hook for their not meeting our every need. Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things our most violent form of nostalgia.”
― Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
― Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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