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Haruki Murakami • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I don’t get anything out of socialising anyway. I never say what I really think, what I really mean, but always more or less agree with whoever I am talking to at the time, pretend that what they say is of interest to me, except when I am drinking, in which case more often than not I go too far the other way, and wake up to the fear of having overs
... See moreDon Bartlett • A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1


Il publie Walden en 1854. Il s’agit d’un authentique et grand livre de philosophie. On n’y trouve aucun concept, aucun personnage conceptuel, mais une réflexion sur les conditions de possibilités d’une expérience existentielle : comment mener une vie philosophique ? Thoreau n’invite pas à ce qu’on l’imite, mais il montre comment on peut faire, à ch
... See moreMichel Onfray • Vivre une vie philosophique (French Edition)

all I see is my own nature. My own individual, stubborn, uncooperative, often self-centered nature that still doubts itself—that, when troubles occur, tries to find something funny, or something nearly funny, about the situation. I’ve carried this character around like an old suitcase, down a long, dusty path. I’m not carrying it because I like it.
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Un détail : en quittant son pays, il laissera derrière lui une trentaine de recueils, composés et reliés par ses soins, d’autres poètes. Car, dit-il au passage, « cela fait partie de mon programme de vie de m’intéresser aux autres ».