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Jaron is Currently Reading

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White Nights

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Jul 08, 2026 01:34AM

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Fantasia

by Geronimo Stilton

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Jul 02, 2026 02:52AM

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Infinite Jest

by David Foster Wallace

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Jaron’s Quotes

“Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for the world and self-pity.”
― Emil Cioran

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“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.”
― Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

tags: fascism, history, politics, state-of-emergency

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“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
― Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

tags: alienation, art, humanity

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“The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!”
― Paul Valéry

tags: le-cimetière-marin, life, the-graveyard-by-the-sea, the-wind-is-rising, wind

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“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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