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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is not reducible to maieutics; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. In its non-violent transitivity the very epiphany of the face is produced.”
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
“The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.”
― The Wretched of the Earth
― The Wretched of the Earth
“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.”
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
― Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority
“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
― Gravity and Grace
― Gravity and Grace
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