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“gogol, in hopes of a ‘regeneration,’ journeys to nazareth and discovers he is as bored there as ‘in a russian railroad station’ — this is what happens to us all when we look outside ourselves for what can exist only inside.”
— Oct 08, 2026 02:19PM
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joseph
is on page 136 of 212
“for the victim it anxiety, there is no difference between success and fiasco. his reaction to one is the same as to the other: both trouble him equally.”
— 12 hours, 53 min ago
joseph
is on page 114 of 212
“to live in expectation, to count on the future or on a simulacrum of the future: we are so accustomed to it that we have conceived the idea of immortality only out of a need to wait out eternity.”
— Oct 09, 2026 02:58PM
joseph
is on page 73 of 212
“a man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of his talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.”
— Oct 07, 2026 02:46PM
joseph
is on page 43 of 212
“the same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever i go: i pretend interest in what matters is nothing to me, i bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. what attracts me is elsewhere, and i don’t know what that elsewhere is.”
— Oct 05, 2026 07:15PM