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“In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today earned with the same qualifications one requires to be interned in a madhouse: amorality, hypomania and an incapacity for thought.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”
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“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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Jenna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jenna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
90 books
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77 friends
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10 friends
1 book
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20 friends
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55 friends
1 book
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34 friends
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108 friends
18 books
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35 friends
101 books
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181 friends
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