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Michael McCluskey
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“Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”
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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
― Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
“I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.”
― Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy
― Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy
“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
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“The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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