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“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself. ”
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“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― L'Étranger
― L'Étranger
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
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Koustubh’s 2025 Year in Books
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