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“I’ve lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I’ve felt, very often, a vicarious happiness. I haven’t existed. I’ve been someone else. I’ve lived without thinking.”
I guess I’m doing this now. God I love this book so much

“I’ve probably never enjoyed an incorruptible moment, free of any underlying spirit of failure and gloom. In all my moments of spiritual liberation there was a dormant sorrow, vaguely blooming in gardens beyond the walls of my consciousness” Cut off for space
Officially halfway done!

“Anything but to have to struggle with original creation! How I envy those who produce novels, those who begin them and write them and finish them!”
As someone who has tried on multiple occasions to write a novel, yeah.

I should probably stop updating this daily but at the same time I don’t want to stop.

“Art consists in making others feel what we feel, in freeing them from themselves by offering them our own personality. The true substance of whatever I feel is absolutely incommunicable, and the more profoundly I feel it, the more incommunicable it is.”
Also I’m slacking on my reading again lol

I should’ve read The Jungle to study for APUSH exam but it’s too late I’m already reading two books. I did horribly on my Gilded Age test I definitely should’ve

This book is officially the oldest on my shelf. The edition I have is from 1935. It may not be the best translation but it is 91 years old.

idk if this was the best book to read right before I have a shit ton of exams but it’s not like I’ll drop it because of that

“I constantly feel that I was someone different, that a different I felt, that a different I thought. I’m watching a play with a different, unfamiliar setting, and what I’m watching is me.”

Lots of slacking on my part. I’ve been doing other stuff at night instead of reading (watching music videos of my favorite bands on repeat while thinking about the fact I could be reading right now)

“Who am I behind this unreality? I don’t know. I must be someone… I want to be exactly like what I wanted to be and am not. If I were to give in to life, I’d be destroyed. I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.”
Shortened for character limit

This book is in a weird limbo of being both a slog to get through and really, really good.

I impulsively bought two books even though I have no room for them. I got Cloud Cuckoo Land (Goodwill) and Diary of an Oxygen Thief (eBay)

“There was never this hour, nor this light, nor this person that’s me. What will be tomorrow will be something else, and what I see will be seen by reconstituted eyes, full of a new vision.”
I have so many quotes highlighted in this book despite only being 90 pages in. I think it’s at 14.

Great so far, loving it

So I haven't been reading... anything. Not even the textbook readings I need to read. Horrible slump this time

Between The Book of Disquiet and The Unbearable Lightness of Being at the moment. I can’t decide which one to commit to, both are great.

Definitely taking a break for school. My grades are shit.

I could no doubt finish this book tonight but i just don’t want to. It’s not bad but I have so much more important stuff to do

you know, I was gonna write “BRAT DOWN” for this one but this chapter was waaay too traumatic for me to be making a quip like that

She should’ve killed that little shit edouard

Bought The Book of Disquiet today for 22 dollars today and it physically hurt.

I’m so close to finishing, I think I could finish this week if it weren’t for APUSH.

Whoops

Ah yes, I, who knows sooo much about banking, knew exactly what happened in this chapter.

Still getting my ass beat by APUSH. I’m thinking this might turn into a Romeo and Juliet thing now

Film class is making pick a passage of my choice to do a video on and I really wanna pick something from one of my favorite books but they’re all either too long, not very easy to record, or already have films