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Dan
Dan is 76% done with Alcools
“Earth
O lacerated Earth the rivers mended you
I prefer night and day in the sphinxeries
To know at last I am devoured there”


“'The sunset gargled by the sea
Where seamen pined
The sails and masts are greenery again”

“'The sheep are gone into the snow
Flakes of wool and tufts of money
Soldiers go by and if only I
Had a changing heart of my own
Changing but I know nothing”
Sep 08, 2025 03:56AM Add a comment
Alcools

Dan
Dan is 66% done with Alcools
“O Ocean distend into darkness
Eyes of dogfish prowl till dawn
Cadavers of days are scavenged by starlight
In the noise of the waves the death of the heart”



“Mais le canal était désert
Le quai aussi et nul ne vit
Comment mes baisers retrouvèrent
Celle à qui j’ai donné ma vie
Un jour pendant plus de deux heure”
Aug 17, 2025 05:54AM Add a comment
Alcools

Dan
Dan is 47% done with Alcools
“'And also I up close am lusterless
A miasma come to dim the lanterns
A sudden hand across the eyes'”
Aug 08, 2025 01:32PM Add a comment
Alcools

Dan
Dan is 38% done with Alcools
“Puis les marmitons apportèrent les viandes
Des rôtis de pensées mortes dans mon cerveau
Mes beaux rêves mort-nés en tranches bien saignantes
Et mes souvenirs faisandés en godiveaux”
Jul 06, 2025 05:07AM Add a comment
Alcools

Dan
Dan is 26% done with Alcools
“Ils cueillent les colchiques qui sont comme des mères
Filles de leurs filles et sont couleur de tes paupières
Qui battent comme les fleurs battent au vent dément

Le gardien du troupeau chante tout doucement
Tandis que lentes et meuglant les vaches abandonnent
Pour toujours ce grand pré mal fleuri par l’automne“
Jul 01, 2025 01:02PM Add a comment
Alcools

Dan
Dan is 23% done with Alcools
“'Et je chantais cette romance
En 1903 sans savoir
Que mon amour à la semblance
Du beau Phénix s’il meurt un soir
Le matin voit sa renaissance.'“
Jun 29, 2025 05:43AM Add a comment
Alcools

Dan
Dan is on page 20 of 123 of The Stranger
“I told her Maman had died. She wanted to know how long ago, so I said, “Yesterday.” She gave a little start but didn’t say anything. I felt like telling her it wasn’t my fault, but I stopped myself because I remembered that I’d already said that to my boss. It didn’t mean anything. Besides, you always feel a little guilty.”
Jun 22, 2025 06:34AM Add a comment
The Stranger

Dan
Dan is on page 143 of 220 of Disgrace
“He does not seem to have the gift of hardness.”

Except when it comes to Melanie…?
Jun 14, 2025 01:08PM Add a comment
Disgrace

Dan
Dan is on page 38 of 220 of Disgrace
“Like a thing of wood, he turns and leaves.”
Jun 05, 2025 11:52AM Add a comment
Disgrace

Dan
Dan is 9% done with Alcools
“(…) une jolie rue dont j’ai oublié le nom
Neuve et propre du soleil elle était le clairon
Les directeurs les ouvriers et les belles sténo-dactylo-graphes
Du lundi matin au samedi soir quatre fois par jour y passent
Le matin par trois fois la sirène y gémit
Une cloche rageuse y aboie vers midi
Les inscriptions des enseignes et des murailles
Les plaques les avis à la façon des perroquets criaillent”
Jun 01, 2025 02:26PM Add a comment
Alcools

Dan
Dan is starting Disgrace
“By most measurements, yes, he believes he is. However, he has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until he is dead.”

“He ought to give up, retire from the game. At what age, he wonders, did Origen castrate himself? Not the most graceful of solutions, but then ageing is not a graceful business.” 😭😭
Jun 01, 2025 02:09PM Add a comment
Disgrace

Dan
Dan is on page 164 of 244 of The Bell Jar
“The only trouble was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life. No matter how much you knelt and prayed, you still had to eat three meals a day and have a job and live in the world.”
Jun 01, 2025 12:22AM Add a comment
The Bell Jar

Dan
Dan is 5% done with The Lion Women of Tehran
Baby just wants a friend 🥺
May 05, 2025 09:41AM Add a comment
The Lion Women of Tehran

Dan
Dan is 83% done with Nausea
“I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.”
May 03, 2025 08:10AM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 62% done with Nausea
“Half-past five strikes. I get up, my cold shirt sticks to my flesh. I go out. Why? Well, because I have no reason not to. Even if I stay, even if I crouch silently in a corner, I shall not forget myself. I will be there, my weight on the floor. I am.”
Apr 23, 2025 12:19PM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 47% done with From Savagery
“I know she's doing it: succumbing to the delights of self-mutilation and that maybe I can help her to change; or accompany her rather than change her, because even before I got to know her I knew she was the most unchangeable person, and also the most brilliant, the most articulate, the best at expressing herself and the one who understood everything. Margot, what could you be doing?”
Apr 20, 2025 01:08AM Add a comment
From Savagery

Dan
Dan is 53% done with Nausea
“he was taking his relaxation too, by Heaven, and it was writing verses. But he had the eagle eye of a leader.

And soldiers? I was in the centre of the room, the cynosure of all these grave eyes. […] My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?”
Apr 20, 2025 12:41AM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 48% done with Nausea
“yes, I was there, living in the midst of these books full of knowledge describing the immutable forms of the animal species, explaining that the right quantity of energy is kept integral in the universe; I was there, standing in front of a window whose panes had a definite refraction index. But what feeble barriers! I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day.”
Apr 16, 2025 01:00PM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 44% done with Nausea
“Where shall I keep mine? You don't put your past in your pocket; you have to have a house. I have only my body: a man entirely alone, with his lonely body, cannot indulge in memories; they pass through him. I shouldn't complain: all I wanted was to be free.
Apr 15, 2025 01:30PM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 36% done with Nausea
“there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one.
Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it; it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.”
Apr 13, 2025 12:10PM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 29% done with Nausea
“But this paltry event is not like the others: suddenly you see that it is the beginning of a great shape whose outlines are lost in mist and you tell yourself, "Something is beginning." Something is beginning in order to end: adventure does not let itself be drawn out; it only makes sense when dead. I am drawn, irrevocably, towards this death which is perhaps mine as well.”
Apr 05, 2025 04:23AM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 23% done with Nausea
“A torrid sun moves stiffly in my head like a magic lantern slide. A fragment of blue sky follows; after a few jolts it becomes motionless. I am all golden within. From what Moroccan (or Algerian or Syrian) day did this flash suddenly detach itself?”
Apr 04, 2025 01:57PM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 20% done with Nausea
“Suddenly: it was almost unbearable to become so hard, so brilliant. At the same time the music was drawn out, dilated, swelled like a waterspout. It filled the room with its metallic transparency, crushing our miserable time against the walls. I am in the music. Globes of fire turn in the mirrors; encircled by rings of smoke, veiling and unveiling the hard smile of light.”
Apr 03, 2025 12:38PM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 17% done with Nausea
“There is a white hole in the wall, a mirror. It is a trap. I know I am going to let myself be caught in it. I have. The grey thing appears in the mirror. I go over and look at it, I can no longer get away.”
Apr 03, 2025 12:26PM Add a comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is starting Nausea
“Existentialism is a philosophy, as a matter of fact, because it has been lengthily adumbrated by men trained in the philosophical disciplines; but it is also and more fundamentally a shift in ordinary human attitudes that has altered every aspect of life in our civilization.”
Mar 30, 2025 01:43PM 1 comment
Nausea

Dan
Dan is 72% done with The Prophet
“For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:
And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:
Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.
It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.
I cannot teach you how to pray in words.”
Mar 28, 2025 02:10PM Add a comment
The Prophet

Dan
Dan is 51% done with The Prophet
Work is love made visible.
Mar 27, 2025 02:07PM Add a comment
The Prophet

Dan
Dan is 51% done with The Prophet
Work is love made visible.
Mar 27, 2025 02:07PM Add a comment
The Prophet

Dan
Dan is 13% done with The Prophet
“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.
Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.”
Mar 27, 2025 10:31AM 2 comments
The Prophet

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