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“Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but not yet gone; that dreadful, loathsome death, the only reality, relentlessly closing in on him; and that same endless lie. What did days, weeks, or hours matter?”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Death is finished, he said to himself. It is no more!”
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
― The Death of Ivan Ilych
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Javier’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Javier’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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