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Imaginarium
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read in January 2022
Imaginarium said:
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Just a fable about a man with a gigantic ego, always talking about "power", but never really acquiring or exerting any power. Interesting thoughts are few and far between.
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“Man is a self-conscious nothing.”
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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.”
― 1984
― 1984
“A human life has “rejectives” rather than objectives, a kind of movement more reactive than active, an escape rather than a search.”
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
“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.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“If we were internally or intrinsically valuable, we should have complete consciousness of our value without needing external acknowledgment.”
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
― Discomfort and Moral Impediment: The Human Situation, Radical Bioethics and Procreation
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