Intellectual


An Ishmael of Syria
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Stranger
1984
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Alchemist
Outliers: The Story of Success
Man's Search for Meaning
The Handmaid's Tale
Animal Farm
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Secret History
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Fahrenheit 451
Meditations
Abhaidev
I am not like any of them. I am disillusioned with spirituality. I am far too well-read to devote myself to a cause. Don’t you get it? I don’t have the dedication and can’t submit myself. I am far too intelligent, proud, and egotistical to meditate. I am far too arrogant to relent, far too damaged to commit myself. All I can do is think and philosophise. All I have is the awareness of my condition, my misery.
Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

Erik Pevernagie
Through their intellectual disability or mental illiteracy, some cannot free themselves from the imprisonment of irrevocable idiocy and feel condemned to find gratifying compensation by extracting the vilest qualities from the deep quarters of their dark self. ("Ugly mug offense") ...more
Erik Pevernagie

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