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“too much light conversation about the oedipus complex and anal erotism is taking the edge off love”

he says that society is more concerned about the consent of both parties during sex and not the morals on sex

when your mom buys the book to read as a family but you thought it was a different book but it’s christian ideology concerning the sexual revolution

“i just kept thinking that when human beings get that way, they’re no good for anything”

“now i have neither happiness not unhappiness. everything passes. that is the one and only thing i have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where i have dwelled up to now in a burning hell. everything passes.”

“she lay down beside me. towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word ‘death.’ she too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being; and when i reflected on my dread of the world and it’s bothersomeness, on money, the movement, women, my studies, it seemed impossible that i could go on living. i consented easily to her proposal.”

have to read sections of this for a summer academy so it’s on hold to come back to

“Slavery, as we will explain later, dishonors work; it introduces idleness into society, and with it ignorance and arrogance, misery and luxury. It enervates the forces of the intellect and deadens human activity. The influence of slavery, joined to the English character, explains the mores and the social state of the South.”

god damn man he not only says that slavery is morally wrong he’s spittin facts

he just described the outline of america in ten pages in intricate detail. what a simp

basically this french man comes to america (in the 1830s) and says that america is better because of the “equality of conditions” and how europe is picking up on those ideas

watched the anime, read the manga, now the actual book. it’s all backwards but it’s okay

this guy is very sexist and i don’t like

reading this while my flight is delayed for two hours

law of evidence
expert witnesses become so warped in their judgment by regarding the subject in one point of view that even when conscientiously disposed, they are incapable of expressing a candid opinion

starting to think this guy is a vegan

“the story of the luxury trap carries with it an important lesson. humanity’s search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted.”