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"“… infinite, endlessly flowing in an as-yet-incomplete harmony yet permanent, immobile, echoing his own permanence and immobility, lying there, stretching, fixed as if by nails in his horizontal, immersed, practically submerged position, as if peace were a dish of dizzying sweetness and he the table, as if such peace and such sweetness really existed…”" — Dec 20, 2025 05:34AM
"“… infinite, endlessly flowing in an as-yet-incomplete harmony yet permanent, immobile, echoing his own permanence and immobility, lying there, stretching, fixed as if by nails in his horizontal, immersed, practically submerged position, as if peace were a dish of dizzying sweetness and he the table, as if such peace and such sweetness really existed…”" — Dec 20, 2025 05:34AM
Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil possess the manly virtues. Of their own volition, or through an accident which has been chosen for them, they plunge lucidly and without complaint into a reproachful, ignominious
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“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
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“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”
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“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.”
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
“That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.”
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
― Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology
“I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you.”
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
― The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
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