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Rage! Hatred! Hunger! Pride! Jealousy! Ambition! Lust! We had a name for everything. But that colourful cavalcade of emotions was just a sham. It was all pain—all of it—all along.
“In any case civilization has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. In old days he saw justice in bloodshed and with his conscience at peace exterminated those he thought proper. Now we do think bloodshed abominable and yet we engage in this abomination, and with more energy than ever. Which is worse? Decide that for yourselves.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“What is to be done with millions of facts that bear witness that men, CONSCIOUSLY, that is fully understanding their real interests, have left them in the background and have rushed headlong on another path, to meet peril and danger, compelled to this course by nobody and nothing, but, as it were, simply disliking the beaten track, and have obstinately, willfully, struck out another difficult absurd way, seeking it almost in the darkness.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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Diarmuid’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Diarmuid’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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21 friends
300 books
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101 books
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Biography, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Music, Philosophy, Science, Science fiction, and space-opera
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