“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?”
―
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?”
―
“Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.”
― The Politics of Friendship
― The Politics of Friendship
“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
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