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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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“Be groovy or leave, man”
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“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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“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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“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
Edvards’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Edvards’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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81 books
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120 books
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127 friends
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