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This book is disgusting

Time 4 a reread

Insane read, perfect timing

Some good excerpts but overall… this book is a struggle to push through. Sooo pretentious. Please for the hate of god laugh at yourself I am begging

“ but possession of chance requires fingers as light as chance itself. You have to have fingers that don’t grasp. Nothing is more contrary to chance (to love) than endless questioning or anxious trembling or the need to exclude unfavorable chance developments; nothing is more pointless than exhausting reflection”

“But I strive so much that I remain completely in the present, killing inside me both past and future”

“The purity I speak of is utterly limpid: I can accept even bad things… whatever is primitive is pure. Whatever is spontaneous is pure. Are bad things pure too? I don’t know, I only know that sometimes at the root of something bad lies a purity that didn’t quite make the grade… One thing I do know: love, however violent, is.
And suddenly, just now, I saw that I am not pure.” - the white dress

“… the moment of truth— referring to the critical moment of the bullfight: when the wounded beast sees death approaching. Trickery? With death— how could anyone not resort to cheating? Trickery! I made up my mind to die the other say: what came in with my anguish went out with the next wind”

“‘Is God the animal I’d like to tear apart?’ As if I really was a beast of prey. But I’m sicker than that. My hunger holds no interest for me. Rather than eat, my desire is to be eaten…Once you realize you’ve been abandoned and that your vanity has been rendered helpless between the absence of a solution and the banal answer of the mysteries of a self, there’s nothing left in you but a wound.”

OH MY GOD
(Starting part 3)

this book is HOT oh my god

3.5/5
“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world”. I enjoyed how this book came to an end but felt bored by the emptiness of our narrator and his short little sentences. Had higher hopes for this classic but it was still a quick and interesting read.

Thinking about how pitiful it is that I let a man that doesn’t read much take this book to Texas with him because I will never get it back and it’s like $50 USED for an 80 page book. When will I learn?