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The Misanthrope by Moliere
This is, by no measure, a foolish book. It is, as the title so blatantly confesses, a misanthropic read. It’s sincere and grim. And it...
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Jul 25, 20222 min read


Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings by Ismat Chughtai
Imagine, just for a moment, the rise and fall of your heartbeat. Feel tiny bubbles of thoughts making their way through the changing...
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Jul 24, 20222 min read


The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
A novelized autobiography. An attempt to interiorize the indifference and absurdity of existing. A mirror through which one is conscious...
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Jul 14, 20222 min read


War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let...
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Apr 13, 20222 min read


Life for Sale by Yukio Mishima
“Well, that's what they do on television. Every fifteen minutes, there are breaks for commercials. That way we get to look forward to...
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Apr 13, 20222 min read


A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.” The...
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Apr 13, 20222 min read


Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
“One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased...
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Apr 13, 20222 min read


Literary Theme: Lonely & Secluded Characters
In the margins of different settings, the remote marsh of Second Place, the grueling hydraulic press in Too Loud A Solitude, the desolate...
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Jan 17, 20222 min read


The Stranger by Albert Camus
In Albert Camus’s The Stranger, you are put in front of the immediate ambiguity of the world. The kind that you experience in ordinary...
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Oct 4, 20214 min read


The profoundly psychological world of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
A psychological study of an individual rather than a large group of people, so that it’s more private and intimate. That is what makes...
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Jul 9, 20212 min read
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