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It’s that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possib...more

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No consciousness that we would recognize as consciousness. Not awareness, as far as we can make out, of a self with a history. What I mind is what ten...more

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There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason.

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In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vi...more

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I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each da...more

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I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enl...more

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There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who have no such capacity (when the lack is extreme, we...more