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The Book of Five Rings

by Miyamoto Musashi

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The World as Will and Representation: Volume 2

by Arthur Schopenhauer

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“If we were internally or intrinsically valuable, we should have complete consciousness of our value without needing external acknowledgment.”
― Julio Cabrera, Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation

tags: antinatalism, existential-nihilism, negative-ethics, pessimism

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“Performing residual actions is to participate daily in small funeral ceremonies.”
― Julio Cabrera, Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation

tags: antinatalism, existential-nihilism, negative-ethics, pessimism

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“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, agony, agony-of-torture, chronic-pain, pain, torture

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“I exist without knowing it and will die without wanting to. I’m the gap between what I am and am not, between what I dream and what life has made of me, the fleshly and abstract average of things that are nothing, I being likewise nothing.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: existence, pessimism, self, soul

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“A human life has “rejectives” rather than objectives, a kind of movement more reactive than active, an escape rather than a search.”
― Julio Cabrera, Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation

tags: antinatalism, negative-ethics, pessimism

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