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Ashley is Currently Reading

Ashley is currently reading

What Is Existentialism?

by Simone de Beauvoir

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— Jan 02, 2026 10:17AM

Jan 02, 2026 10:16AM

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Spring Snow (The Sea of Fertility, #1)

by Yukio Mishima

bookshelves: currently-reading, 20th-century, fiction, japanese, owned, translated

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"“The very things that his sense of dignity had made him ignore up to now had suddenly gained the power to humiliate him.”" — Oct 18, 2025 12:50PM

Oct 18, 2025 12:47PM

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Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays

by Albert Camus

bookshelves: currently-reading, 20th-century, french, history, nonfiction, owned, philosophy, politics, translated

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"“For you are willing to keep silent about one reign of terror in order the better to combat another one. There are some of us who do not want to keep silent about anything. It is our whole political society that nauseates us.“" — Oct 07, 2024 09:27PM

Sep 20, 2024 08:06PM

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Ashley’s Quotes

“Hitherto, it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill.”
― Henry George, Progress and Poverty

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“The city was filled to overflowing with persons who had neither brains nor individuality, who bore no resemblance to men that live by bread, and had only their outward shape to distinguish them from sheep.”
― Lucian of Samosata

tags: sheep

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“There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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“Once when he [Demonax, a supposed Cynic sage] came upon two uncouth philosophers inquiring and wrangling with one another--one of them putting absurd questions, the other answering perfectly irrelevantly--he said "Don't you think, my friends, that one of these guys is milking a he-goat and the other putting a sieve underneath it?”
― Lucian of Samosata, The Works of Lucian of Samosata

tags: milking-billy-goats, uncouth-philosophers

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“There was no sign of Plato, and I was told later that he had gone to live in his Republic, where he was cheerfully submitting to his own Laws. [...] None of the Stoics were present. Rumour had it that they were still clambering up the steep hill of Virtue [...]. As for the Sceptics, it appeared that they were extremely anxious to get there, but still could not quite make up their minds whether or not the island really existed.”
― Lucian of Samosata, Satirical Sketches

tags: plato, republic, scepticism, stoicism

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