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“Actually I’m in med school at Rutgers.” A neon-pink baby pacifier hung from a cord around his neck. In another year it would be a stethoscope.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
The Flies (the play that was in rehearsal when he met Camus), the Roads of Freedom novels, his many essays and lectures, and above all his masterwork Being and Nothingness, which he developed from his years of note-taking and published in June 1943. It seems extraordinary that a 665-page tome mainly about freedom could come out in the midst of an o
... See moreSarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
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Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
“Bleed! Tup, thrup, fo!” chanted the troops. “Die! Tup, thrup, fo! Doooooooooommmmmmmmmm.”
Kurt Vonnegut • The Sirens of Titan
I was carrying a fragile treasure.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry • The Little Prince
Now Billy and the rest were being marched into the ruins by their guards. I was there. O’Hare was there.