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Imaginarium is Currently Reading

Imaginarium is currently reading

The Book of Five Rings

by Miyamoto Musashi

bookshelves: non-fiction, samurai, currently-reading

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The World as Will and Representation: Volume 2

by Arthur Schopenhauer

bookshelves: philosophy, philosophy-metaphysics, philosophy-pessimism, currently-reading

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Imaginarium’s Quotes

“Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
― Julius Bahnsen

tags: misanthropy, self-consciousness

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“To Never Have been born may be the greatest boon of all”
― Sophocles

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“As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, Enemies: A Love Story

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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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“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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