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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Dec 20, 2024 04:35AM

“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer...”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

tags: writing, writing-process

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“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
― Albert Camus

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“I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“It remained inaccessible to my mind, even though my heart unconsciously became increasingly suffused with it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

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“I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.”
― Daniil Kharms

tags: absurdism

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