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“Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.”
― Phenomenology of Perception
― Phenomenology of Perception
“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― The Lover
― The Lover
“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”
― The Unnamable
― The Unnamable
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
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Basem’s 2025 Year in Books
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