“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”
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“and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
has gone back into the sea.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.”
― Fathomless
― Fathomless
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