October 2011
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“In certain situations, replying ‘nothing’ when asked what one is thinking about...”
– Albert Camus
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September 2011
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“I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there, trying to...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women
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“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do...”
– James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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“The future is called “perhaps”, which is the only possible thing to call the...”
– Tennessee Williams
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“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I felt like crying but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
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“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“It certainly was not my intention to make you suffer, yet I have done so;...”
– Franz Kafka, letters to Felice
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Working on that book list.
Finally finished Madness by Foucault. Very interesting, although not something I’d usually read.
Onto The Trial. Be prepared for an influx of Kafka love, I’ve been psyched for this book for almost a month.
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“And those were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be...”
– Homer, The Iliad
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“I’m not sentimental - I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they’re not around.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Without literature, life is hell.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Isn’t it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?”
– Bukowski
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My reading list for the next few weeks:
Madness - Foucault
The Trial - Kafka
No Exit - Sartre
The Necessity of Atheism - David Brooks
What the Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
Oh, and all the nasty business textbooks that I need to read for school. And Slaughterhouse-five and the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock whenever I need to de-stress.
Ridiculously excited for The Trial.
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“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only...”
– Oscar Wilde (via dangerousveins)
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via circles-triangles)
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“If somebody says, ”I love you,” to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will...”
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot
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“And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and,...”
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S. Eliot 