Sublime
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Pour l'Occidental contemporain, même lorsqu'il est bien portant, la pensée de la mort constitue une sorte de bruit de fond qui vient emplir son cerveau dès que les projets et les désirs s'estompent. L'âge
Michel Houellebecq • Les particules élémentaires (French Edition)
the unbearable about-ness of being. By “about-ness” I meant that I felt disconnected from myself, abstracted from my own life.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
The life of my emotions moved early on to the chambers of thought, and that’s where I’ve most fully lived my emotional experience of life.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
William Gass’s novel Omensetter’s Luck.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
George Saunders
Myq Kaplan • 1 card
Even before Norton first went to bed with Pelletier, Morini had felt it coming. Not because of the way Pelletier behaved around Norton but because of her own detachment, a generalized detachment, Baudelaire would have called it spleen, Nerval melancholy, which left Norton liable to embark on an intimate relationship with anyone who came along.
Roberto Bolaño • 2666: Picador Classic
