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"so far ligotti makes way too many charged assertions without extrapolating on the crucial ones (namely thinking abt his takes on non-human consciousness). but his cheeky neurotic professor language is fun (even if it can sometimes obstruct his arguments) and the book is a great primer to learn more abt the history of philosophical pessimism." — Nov 19, 2025 06:39AM
"so far ligotti makes way too many charged assertions without extrapolating on the crucial ones (namely thinking abt his takes on non-human consciousness). but his cheeky neurotic professor language is fun (even if it can sometimes obstruct his arguments) and the book is a great primer to learn more abt the history of philosophical pessimism." — Nov 19, 2025 06:39AM
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”
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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
― The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Beloved
― Beloved
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
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