“The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.”
― The Human Condition
― The Human Condition
“I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately”
― The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
― The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond
“Don't be sad. Even if the world won't forgive you, I'll forgive you.
Don't be sad. Even if you don't forgive the world, I'll forgive you.
So please tell me. How do I make you forgive me?”
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Don't be sad. Even if you don't forgive the world, I'll forgive you.
So please tell me. How do I make you forgive me?”
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“I speak only one language, and it is not my own.”
― Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin
― Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin
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