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I’m doing an internship in an elementary school for disabled children, there will be a lot of children’s books in the next 6 weeks or so

Sandmännchen, Frau Elster und Herr Fuchs mentioned, aber kein Pittiplatsch…

Childhood reread, I need something light

Already added to favorites

I think the profile picture hell loop is over, this is very accurate to me irl

Resolution for 2024 is to read Hegels 'Phänomenologie des Geistes'

‘after everything’ has such beautiful writing, I’m so confused…

I feel conflicted about this, i love the themes and subjects of the stories but i don’t feel much for the writing style

“Where’s it gone, Alice?
It’s dead, Francis.
Is it really dead?
Quite dead, Francis.
I was born there, you know.
We must move on.”

I should read lord of the rings again soon, things have been getting a little hopeless…

“Is that all? Is that all that you are? Is that you? Ah, well if that’s you, if that’s all there is to you, then you’re not so remarkable any more. I know your story now, there’s nothing else for me to know and quite suddenly I don’t know what to say to you. In truth, I find you a little dull, you shouldn’t have told me everything, you should have kept something back to keep my interest alive.”

”When I am ejected from the ordinary world I must not lament. I must enter very boldly into my world, with the feelings I have, eyes open, alone.”

If anyone is interested, I added my google drive folder link to my bio.
I mostly save articles and essays there

Probably the strangest thing I’ve ever read.
I absolutely love it

“That which dies in modern man never dies in me, because my senses are alive, married to my feelings and to meaning, because my earth has roots in the infinite. It is the emptiness of their sensations which causes ennui.”

“He felt comforted making friends with all that never answered back, with all that never moved, with all that others disregarded or simply never noticed”

I am physically shaken and upset by the beauty of the lined up spines and covers of the 東京創元社 乱歩傑作選（Tokyo Sogensha's Edogawa Rampo Collection)…

Not even finished yet and already one of my favorites

“I felt miserable. It was not so much because my slowness in comprehending could only have arisen from stupidity, but rather because the incident had revealed such an obvious difference between his focus of interest and my own.
I felt the emptiness of the guilt that separated us, and was filled with mortification at having been surprised by such a belated discovery I ought naturally to have foreseen.”

I have an old used copy and when I opened it the spine split clean in half with a crack