The Cynic's Breviary
By: Nicolas Chamfort
4.09
Format: None pages, None
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. Ariel
By: Sylvia Plath
4.19
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more
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"I do not fear it: I have been there."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"I could not run without having to run forever"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
"Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it."-Sylvia Plath, Ariel
4. The Waste Books
By: R.J. Hollingdale , Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
4.16
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
German scientist and man of letters Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was an 18th-century polymath: an ex… read more
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"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
"There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking."-R.J. Hollingdale, The Waste Books
5. The Soul of Man Under Socialism
By: Oscar Wilde
3.91
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde expounds on an anarchist world view. Wilde argues th… read more
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"The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
"It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg."-Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
6. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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7. All Things are Possible
By: Lev Shestov , Shestov Lev
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more
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8. Father Sergius
By: Leo Tolstoy
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Father Sergius" (Russian: Otets Sergii, translit. Otets Sergiy) is a story written by Leo Tolstoy … read more
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9. The Temptation to Exist
By: Richard Howard , Susan Sontag , Emil M. Cioran
4.53
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a liter… read more
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10. Ethan Frome
By: Edith Wharton
2.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his dif… read more
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11. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
12. The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Joseph Joubert
4.50
Format: 168 pages,
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited an… read more
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13. The Zürau Aphorisms
By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann , Roberto Calasso , Geoffrey Brock
3.68
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are… read more
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"Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"چهطور میتوان در دنیا شادمان بود مگر با گریختن از آن؟"-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"از رقیب راستین، شجاعت بینهایتی به درون تو جریان دارد."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
14. A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy
By: Miyamoto Musashi , Victor Harris , Lew Hartman
4.15
Format: 32 pages,
Miyamoto Musashi fue el mas celebre de los guerreros (samurais) japoneses. En este texto presenta s… read more
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15. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays
By: Charles Baudelaire , None
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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16. Canti
By: Jonathan Galassi , Giacomo Leopardi
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesNotable Book for 2011 Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first E… read more
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17. Civil Disobedience
By: Henry David Thoreau
3.80
Format: None pages,
Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Go… read more
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18. Monogamy
By: Adam Phillips
5.00
Format: 120 pages,
In this sparkling, provocative collection of meditations on coupledom and its discontents, Adam Phi… read more
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19. Tragic Sense of Life
By: Miguel de Unamuno , None
4.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
To the mentality that assumes, more or less consciously, that we must of necessity find a solution … read more
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20. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
21. Hunger
By: Knut Hamsun , George Egerton
4.05
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
One of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary … read more
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"Yoksul aydın, zengin aydından çok daha kuvvetli görür.(s.128)"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"It was not my intention to collapse; no, I would die standing."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"God be praised, I had raised myself in my own estimation again!"-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
"Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity."-Knut Hamsun, Hunger
22. A Hero of Our Time
By: Mikhail Lermontov , Paul Foote
3.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In its adventurous happenings, its abductions, duels, and sexual intrigues, A Hero of Our Timelooks… read more
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23. The Burnout Society
By: Byung-Chul Han
5.00
Format: 172 pages,
Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more
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24. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
25. Maxims
By: François de la Rochefoucauld , Leonard Tancock
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire an… read more
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26. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
By: Jean Baudrillard , Paul Patton
3.80
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his conc… read more
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27. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
By: Albert Camus
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on … read more
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28. Twilight of the Idols
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more
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29. Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
By: Byung-Chul Han
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psycheByung-Chul Han, a star… read more
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"İkinci Aydınlanma salt verilerle işleyen bilginin devrimidir."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Geleceğimiz, üretimin ötesinde, 'kullanılmazı kullanmayı' becerebilecek durumda olup olmamamıza bağlıdır."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"People who fail in the neoliberal archievement-society see themselves as responsible for their lot and feel shame instead of questioning society or the system."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
"Günümüzün üretim tarzını niteleyen birilikte çalışan 'çokluk' (Multitude) değil, yalıtılmış, kendiyle kavga eden, kendini gönüllü olarak sömüren girişimcinin yalnızlığıdır (Solitude)."-Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
30. Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
By: Hito Steyerl
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?How can one think of art institutio… read more
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31. The Cynic's Breviary
By: Nicolas Chamfort
4.09
Format: None pages, None
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