Ten Favorite Volumes of Aphorisms
(from most to least despondent)
Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis: On Killing Oneself by Hermann Burger
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Aphorisms by Franz Kafka
Corpses by Vik Shirley
The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
300 Arguments by Sarah Manguso
Monsieur Teste by Paul Valéry
Reading Is Walking by Gonçalo M. Tavares
Final Judgements by Joan Fuster
— February 23, 2023