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“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
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“Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.”
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“Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.”
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Quincunx’s 2025 Year in Books
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