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“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
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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.”
― Simone Weil

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“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”
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“The possible ranks higher than the actual.”
― Martin Heidegger

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