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“The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And I’m writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum physics and so on. That’s the only way to survive. Like Lenin. I will use his example. You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel.”
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“Be groovy or leave, man”
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“Q- What makes you depressed?
Seeing stupid people happy.”
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Seeing stupid people happy.”
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“A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»”
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
― Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
“I think boredom is the beginning of every authentic act. (...) Boredom opens up the space, for new engagements. Without boredom, no creativity. If you are not bored, you just stupidly enjoy the situation in which you are.”
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Edvards’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Edvards’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
210 books
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91 friends
87 books
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128 friends
313 books
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62 friends
2,756 books
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200 friends
794 books
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59 friends
80 books
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20 friends
117 books
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126 friends
1,383 books
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81 friends
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