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“Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being.”
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
― Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
“Because, friends and neighbors, we live in a Time of Beautiful People. Gorgeous is revered. We can’t stand anything even remotely ordinary; it has to be young and lovely. So you are not where it’s at, if you aren’t pretty. The trend is up, and it’s getting worse. We spend billions more on cosmetics each year than education, and if it continues to spiral, soon enough we will come to a time when we may contemplate”
― I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
― I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
“Il se sentait comme une boîte de bière écrasée sous les pieds d’un hooligan britannique, ou comme un beefsteak abandonné dans le compartiment légumes d’un réfrigérateur bas de gamme, enfin il ne se sentait pas très bien.”
― Anéantir
― Anéantir
“Aurélien ne s’était naturellement pas rendu compte tout de suite qu’il avait épousé une merde, et de surcroît une merde vénale, c’est une chose qu’on ne réalise pas immédiatement, il faut un minimum de quelques mois pour comprendre qu’on va vivre en enfer, et qu’il ne s’agit pas d’un enfer simple, les cercles sont nombreux, il s’était enfoncé au fil des ans dans des couches successives, de plus en plus oppressantes, de plus en plus noirâtres et irrespirables, les mots acrimonieux qu’ils échangeaient chaque soir se chargeaient chaque fois un peu plus de haine pure.”
― Anéantir
― Anéantir
“At this moment, Paul was hungry. He would go home, it was the only right thing to do, he said to himself before he realized there was nothing to eat at home, that the shelf in the refrigerator reserved for him would be despairingly empty, and that the very expression "home" was a testament of unreasonable optimism.”
― Anéantir
― Anéantir
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