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‘I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air’                                     -Sylvia Plath, Ariel

My Camus collection. ☺️

My four favourite books that I’ve either read or re-read for my degree this year.

Confessions of a Mask (仮面の告白 Kamen no Kokuhaku) by Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫 Mishima Yukio)

Photos by Amelia Carruthers for Oxford University Press.

Pushkin’s tales.

Nanamaru Sanbatsu Ch.1

Coffee and Baudelaire. || “Think of his women, his springtimes with their scents, his mornings with the street-sweepers’ clouds of dust… All the true, modern, poetic colors, remember he was the first to find them.” - Marcel Proust

Modern Library

Been very slowly re-reading this over the last month or so.

A tribute to Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. || “The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.” (Human, All Too Human) – “Man has an invincible inclination to allow himself to be deceived and is, as it were, enchanted with happiness when the rhapsodist tells him epic fables as if they were true, or when the actor in the theater acts more royally than any real king.” (On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense) – “Whatever has value in our world now does not have value in itself, according to its nature - nature is always value-less, but has been given value at some time, as a present - and it was we who gave and bestowed it.” (The Gay Science) – "My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary - but love it.“ (Beyond Good and Evil) – “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) – “A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.” (On the Genealogy of Morality) – “Self-overcoming is demanded, not on account of any useful consequences it may have for the individual, but so that hegemony of custom and tradition shall be made evident.” (Daybreak)

― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Sirius: We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.