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I skimmed through this for my thesis, so this review is only relevant for those who are interested in the relevance of this to the notion of aesthetics within the literary academy.I think that it was useful in some ways: an overarching framework that ...more "
“Let the future sleep for now, as it deserves. If you wake it too early, you get a groggy present.”
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“You will get to know me better; there are still a number of horrible recesses in me that you don’t know.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice
“What is love? After all, it is quite simple. Love is everything which enhances, widens, and enriches our life. In its heights and in its depths. Love has as few problems as a motor-car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.”
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“4 December. To die would mean nothing else than to surrender a nothing to the nothing, but that would be impossible to conceive, for how could a person, even only as a nothing, consciously surrender himself to the nothing, and not merely to an empty nothing but rather to a roaring nothing whose nothingness consists only in its incomprehensibility.”
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“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”
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