my bookshelf_
| Cover | Title | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
 | The glee I felt upon reading "I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want." after spending the entirety of my life wanting to be everyone and everything all at once. One of my favorites. | |
 | The Lover ★★★★☆ | "very early in my life it was too late." extremely disturbing book. as if lolita an autobiographical and was written by dolores herself. definitely not an easy read if you're a woman. |
 | The Second Sex ★★★★★ | wow. just wow. i, for one, don't think i am smart enough to read this. very profound. just straight up excellence. 700 pages of intellectualism. |
 | The Sickness Unto Death ★★★★★ | "the self is a relation that relates itself to itself." kierkegaard says despair is not sadness—it's the refusal to be oneself. it's the sickness of having to live while feeling dead to yourself. i keep returning to this when i'm afraid of choosing wrong. |
 | A Lover's Discourse ★★★★★ | revolutionary! short meditations on waiting, suffering, losing boundaries. "the image-repertoire"--how we lose ourselves not in the actual person but in the image we've constructed of them. for when you're inside the feeling and need language for it. |
 | Time and the Other ★★★☆☆ | reading this was frustrating. writing seems intentionally difficult to read in order to... probably obscure what is being said? don't get me wrong, the parts that i did understand are great! |
 | Fear and Trembling ★★★★☆ | "Faith begins precisely when reason ends." Hand-in-hand with one of my favorite bible verses: Isaiah 55:8-9. |
 | The Rebel ★★★★☆ | "I rebel, therefore we are." Human identity is inextricably linked to our relationship with others. If we're losing our self-identity then in order to not lose our sense of self, rebellion is very much needed. |
 | The Art of Happiness ★★★★★ | not what you think. epicurus says the gods are blissful beings who don't care about us, and that's liberating. fear of death is paying interest on a debt you don't owe yet. tons are scientifically incorrect but it was ahead of its time for sure. |