“Silence is divinity's communion with the individual”
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“What's true of all the world's ills is also true of the plague. It might help a few people grow. Nonetheless, when you see the suffering and the pain it brings, you'd have to be crazy, blind, or cowardly to resign yourself to the plague.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. That is the first principle of existentialism.”
― Existentialism is a Humanism
― Existentialism is a Humanism
“Infinite resignation is that shirt in the old fable. The thread is spun with tears, bleached by tears, the shirt sewn in tears, but then it also gives better protection than iron and steel. A defect of the fable is that a third party is able to make the material. The secret in life is that everyone must sew it for himself.”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
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