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Pessimist Books

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
ごん狐 (Japanese Edition)
Faust
Faust, First Part
50 days before my suicide
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Dover Literature: Poetry)
Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The Key to Understanding How It Solves the Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Paradoxes of Quantum Mechanics
How High We Go in the Dark
Phenomenally Me: My Sweet 2016™
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
The Stand
Essays and Aphorisms
No Longer Human
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBetter Never to Have Been by David BenatarThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxAbbott by Saladin AhmedThe Nihilist by Keijo Kangur
Antidote to Jordan Peterson
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Quotes Tagged “Pessimist”

Charles Godfrey Leland
“ Pessimism is the result of too much culture and introversion. ”
― Charles Godfrey Leland, Aradia: Gospel of the Witches
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Fernando Pessoa
“ To be a pessimist is to see everything tragically, an attitude that's both excessive and uncomfortable. While it's true that we ascribe no value to the work we produce and that we produce it to keep busy, we're not like the prisoner who busily weaves straw to forget about his fate; we're like the girl who embroiders pillows for no other reason than to keep busy. ...more ”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
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