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"Every time that there arises from the depths of a human heart the childish cry which Christ himself could not restrain, 'Why am I being hurt?', then there is certainly injustice."

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will be reading the latest addition to my Dazai collection—Self-Portraits—next

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To complete my reading of Austen's novels...

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"I love The Odyssey, but I dislike The Iliad. In The Iliad, after all, the central character is a fool. I mean, you can't admire a man like Achilles, no? A man who is sulking all the time, who is angry because people have been personally unjust to him, and who finally sends the body of the man he's killed to his father. Of course, all those things are natural enough in those tales, but there's nothing noble in The Iliad."

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"[H]e amplifies and illuminates everything he talks about; unlike other people, he is not continually contracting the scope of his talk; he makes each of his topics into an infinitely expansive topic, whereas other people's topics are always dwindling; in most conversations, as we know, the topic shrinks down to a puny scrap of conversational material, and very quickly to nothing."

—Thomas Bernhard, Midland at Stilfs

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"And what topics should one set about tackling, he said, if not a topic that inspires dread in the entire world."

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just a picture of me squeezing in some reading time in the bus 🤓

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next up

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"To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision."

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"If there is one article of faith that dominates the Credo of Gustave Flaubert's correspondence, it is that the function of great art is not the provide 'answers.' To suppose that art need respond only to such questions as we are capable of posing is, in Flaubert's view, a presumption, an egotistic fallacy. If art has a 'function,' it is to extend us into unimagined shocks, experiences, pleasures, reflections. Art is discovery, as much as recognition."

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my Camus collection ✨

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on nonhuman animal capabilities and flourishing