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“Abgeschieden vom Lärm des Alltags ist da immer die Sicherheit, dass in uns noch jemand ist, der auf uns aufpasst, auch wenn wir das nicht sehen und nicht hören wollen.”
― Gottes tote Katze und die Last der Existenz: Nihilistische Geschichten
― Gottes tote Katze und die Last der Existenz: Nihilistische Geschichten
“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
― The Road
― The Road
“Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all?”
― Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
― Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo
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Khai’s 2025 Year in Books
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