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“If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?”
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"Not that I take it too seriously, but occasionally I see people "criticising" Hesse's Siddhartha for the fact of a white man writing in 1922 about ancient Indian culture, characters, religion, etc. The Life of Pi, written by a white man in 2001, from"
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“All of humanity’s inventions will fade into dust with time. The rats and cockroaches will remain.”
― Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being
― Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being
“There is an emptiness in life that cannot be described, about which one cannot speak. We must pass over it in silence”
― Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being
― Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being
“Anyone who has never experienced insomnia cannot be taken seriously as an individual.”
― Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being
― Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being
“If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
[The Minotaur]”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
