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“Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is just that there be law, but law is not justice”
― Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
― Heidegger: The Question of Being and History
“But to learn to live, to learn it from oneself and by oneself, all alone, to teach oneself to live (“I would like to learn to live finally”), is that not impossible for a living being? Is it not what logic itself forbids? To live, by definition, is not something one learns. Not from oneself, it is not learned from life, taught by life. Only from the other and by death. In”
― Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International
― Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International
Helen’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Helen’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
166 books
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11 friends
80 books
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8 friends
247 books
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45 friends
317 books
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26 friends
680 books
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5 friends
15 books
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13 friends
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