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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-ho...more

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In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the wh...more

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The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.

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The world always says the same thing. And in that patient truth which proceeds from star to star is established a freedom that releases us from oursel...more

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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

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Living above the world, each discovering his own weight, seeing his face brighten and darken with the day, the night, each of the four inhabitants of ...more

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A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign and irreducible to us, with ...more

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its e...more