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'One may live without father or mother, but one cannot live without God.'"
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“What if he were an ordinary man who has been rightfully allotted no more than a mediocre destiny?”
― Il deserto dei Tartari
― Il deserto dei Tartari
“The more I love humanity in general the less I love man in particular. In my dreams, I often make plans for the service of humanity, and perhaps I might actually face crucifixion if it were suddenly necessary. Yet I am incapable of living in the same room with anyone for two days together. I know from experience. As soon as anyone is near me, his personality disturbs me and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he’s too long over his dinner, another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I hate men individually the more I love humanity.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Very few things matter and nothing matters very much.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“they were humanists: they did not believe in pestilence. A pestilence does not have human dimensions, so people tell themselves that it is unreal, that it is a bad dream which will end. But it does not always end and, from one bad dream to the next, it is people who end, humanists first of all because they have not prepared themselves. The people of our town were no more guilty than anyone else, they merely forgot to be modest and thought that everything was still possible for them, which implied that pestilence was impossible. They”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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Mehmed’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mehmed’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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