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Branko Nikovski
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“Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?”
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“Best to immunize your consciousness from any thoughts that are startling and dreadful so that we can all go on conspiring to survive and reproduce as paradoxical beings—puppets that can walk and talk all by themselves. At worst keep your startling and dreadful thoughts to yourself. Hearken well: “None of us wants to hear spoken the exact anxieties we keep locked up inside ourselves. Smother that urge to go spreading news of your pain and nightmares around town.”
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
“What would you do if you ruled the world?” The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: “Even grammar?”
― The Seventh Function of Language
― The Seventh Function of Language
“Man 'knows', which is why he is always two : his life and his knowing.”
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
― Persuasion and Rhetoric
Absurdism in Fiction
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Springing out of the philosophies of Camus and Kierkegaard, this group embraces the stories and novels where the absurd is played out before us. We se ...more
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