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6160024 No.6160024 [Reply] [Original]

What is the line that really bound you to the book you were reading, and greatly increased your interest in reading it?

>''I love you.''

>> No.6160035

>"you had an arse full of farts that night my darling, and I fucked them all out of you."

>> No.6160058

>and only then did I discover romanticism is human, all-too human, my friends!
Nietzche, Human, All-Too Human

>> No.6160067

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

>> No.6160073

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”
muh Miller ;_;

>> No.6160075

>>6160024
From "Sirens of Titan" by Vonnegut:
"It was literature in its finest sense, since it made Unk courageous, watchful, and secretly free. It made him his own hero in very trying times."

>> No.6160118

from 2666, might be a bit off since i m going by memory...
>she's a medusa; once you have her in your hands she'll blow you away.
then a further discussion on how pegaseus was born after medusa is beheaded, symbolizing the love that a femme fatal can only release after death.

>> No.6160174

>>6160024
"I love men too--not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me."

The words of Maximum Forehead.

>> No.6160187

>>6160024
"I can't breathe anymore, I can't breathe! Why won't you help me!?"

>> No.6160197

>>6160174
>Only after leaving Nigeria then Mongolia do we learn to care for the ego and its own.
Max Stirner, author of The Ego and its Own.

>> No.6160729

"I claim them all."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World