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Bleeding Edge

by Thomas Pynchon

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The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“Let them look up in the sky then...! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars...”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

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“As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

tags: absurdism, absurdist-fiction

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“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

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“I pray for peace—for motionlessness—for the feeling of myself, as of some plant, absorbing life without seeking it, and existing without individual sensation”
― Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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