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Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Read on October 14, 2025
I have no words for a review that would do this justice. Friedrich Nietzsche is truly brilliant and there is nobody that comes close to him in terms of style and substance. Almost nobody that reads this book actually understands it - the forewords, jacket covers, etc, all miss the mark. Friedrich is subtle to the point of formlessness.
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Read on October 14, 2025
I have no words for a review that would do this justice. Friedrich Nietzsche is truly brilliant and there is nobody that comes close to him in terms of style and substance. Almost nobody that reads this book actually understands it - the forewords, jacket covers, etc, all miss the mark. Friedrich is subtle to the point of formlessness.
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Selected Writings
Meister Eckhart
Read on October 11, 2025
The best mystics and philosophers have an ability to trim back your understanding to the very essence and nothing further.
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Read on October 11, 2025
The best mystics and philosophers have an ability to trim back your understanding to the very essence and nothing further.
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The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
Read on September 03, 2025
Don't be a coward because your cowardice will overshadow everything else you do.
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Read on September 03, 2025
Don't be a coward because your cowardice will overshadow everything else you do.
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The Aeneid
Virgil
Read on May 07, 2025
GOAT book. Read it and instantly want to read it again. The ancients’ view of reality is more real than ours because it encourages intellectual humility. This is because of unseen factors like gods etc. Joshua WD Smith’s latin bilingual version transported me to BC times communing with virgil himself in some alternate reality (don’t ask further about it).
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Read on May 07, 2025
GOAT book. Read it and instantly want to read it again. The ancients’ view of reality is more real than ours because it encourages intellectual humility. This is because of unseen factors like gods etc. Joshua WD Smith’s latin bilingual version transported me to BC times communing with virgil himself in some alternate reality (don’t ask further about it).
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Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare
Read on May 03, 2025
Liked the way it toys with the idea of what is real and what isn't. Like a 17th century Inception. I am a Shakespeare fan now.
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Read on May 03, 2025
Liked the way it toys with the idea of what is real and what isn't. Like a 17th century Inception. I am a Shakespeare fan now.
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Read on April 08, 2025
This one is in the pathos. You can feel the innocence of the main character right until the end, and it is this innocence that is moving. Got me thinking that it is better to be a trusting person and risk getting let down by others, than be mistrustful and invite doom. You get what you expect.
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Read on April 08, 2025
This one is in the pathos. You can feel the innocence of the main character right until the end, and it is this innocence that is moving. Got me thinking that it is better to be a trusting person and risk getting let down by others, than be mistrustful and invite doom. You get what you expect.
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The Tempest
William Shakespeare
Read on March 17, 2025
I’m a Shakespeare noob but this is my favourite so far. The interplay of the spiritual and physical elements in the story, the layers of meaning about playwriting and reality are all thought-provoking. Style is everything and some of the turns of phrase are incredible too.
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Read on March 17, 2025
I’m a Shakespeare noob but this is my favourite so far. The interplay of the spiritual and physical elements in the story, the layers of meaning about playwriting and reality are all thought-provoking. Style is everything and some of the turns of phrase are incredible too.
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A l' ombre des jeunes filles en fleur
Marcel Proust
Read on March 09, 2025
Je n’ai entendu rien mais c’etait joli.
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Read on March 09, 2025
Je n’ai entendu rien mais c’etait joli.
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The Iliad
Homer
Read on March 03, 2025
Interesting view into the pre-biblical mind. The battle of Ilium is influenced by a mix of human wisdom, human folly and a large number of unknown factors - here depicted by the infighting and feuds of the gods. To see reality as this soup of chaos, mostly driven by factors beyond our conscious control flies directly in the face of our modernist, rationalist view of the world, and our illusion of control. It is also helps us appreciate the gravitas that Christ struck in saying I and the Father are one - the scale of forces he has said are subjected to us.
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Read on March 03, 2025
Interesting view into the pre-biblical mind. The battle of Ilium is influenced by a mix of human wisdom, human folly and a large number of unknown factors - here depicted by the infighting and feuds of the gods. To see reality as this soup of chaos, mostly driven by factors beyond our conscious control flies directly in the face of our modernist, rationalist view of the world, and our illusion of control. It is also helps us appreciate the gravitas that Christ struck in saying I and the Father are one - the scale of forces he has said are subjected to us.
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