Dean James Renphrey

“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse.”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

“You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity,”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

“Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.”
― Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café