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I’ve read maybe 20 VSI books. This was the worst. It was like the author didn’t realise he was writing an intro. I know a fair bit about existentialism but this book barely covered most of the stuff I already knew and talked really obscure philosophe
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Next to birth, death is one of our most profound experiences – shouldn’t we talk about it, prepare for it, use what it can teach us about how to live?
“Integrity has no need of rules.”
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“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!”
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“The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.”
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“What could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity.”
― The Chocolate War
― The Chocolate War
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