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“Ce n’était ni vrai ni faux, c’était vécu.” “It was neither true nor false, but what was experienced.”

Listen to me: one must love the living and not the dead.”

Any man who asks advice about investing his money from a man he does not know intimately, deserves to be ruined

No help can be given to the dead. Why continue to suffer? Is grief an offering to love, or to fear? 

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König's speech...wow. I can imagine the intensity with which an actor would deliver it.

"He took him by the arm, looking steadily into his eyes, with the look of a man in love." wow.

“There are those who need to write, those who need to dream, those who need to talk. … It’s all the same thing. The theater is not serious, but the bull-fight is, novels aren’t serious, but mythomania is.”

more dark stuff

It was neither true nor false, but real.

The roulette passage might be the best passage in this entire book so far.

ok this book is dark

Perhaps love is above all the means which the Occidental uses to free himself from man’s fate. . ..”

Don’t you consider it a stupidity characteristic of the human race that a man who has only one life should be willing to lose it for an idea?”

“It is very rare for a man to be able to endure—how shall I say it?—his condition, his fate as a man. . ..”

Wow bro just got destroyeddd

intense scene

a gruesome scene on the roof of the station

a lot of action now