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“I did not yet love, and I loved to love; I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

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“The nature of finite things as such is to have the seed of passing away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Science of Logic

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“303. "I can only believe that someone else is in pain, but I know it if I am."—Yes: one can make the decision to say "I believe he is in pain" instead of "He is in pain". But that is all.——What looks like an explanation here, or like a statement about a mental process, is in truth an exchange of one expression for another which, while we are doing philosophy, seems the more appropriate one.
Just try—in a real case—to doubt someone else's fear or pain.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

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“Formal writing does not mean gratuitously fancy writing; it means clear, clean, maximally considerate writing.”
― David Foster Wallace, Both Flesh and Not: Essays

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“Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils? Bad governance, exactions, the cupidity and violence of the great, wars and brigandage, scarcity, misery and pestilence—to this is contemporary history nearly reduced in the eyes of the people. The feeling of general insecurity which was caused by the chronic form wars were apt to take, by the constant menace of the dangerous classes, by the mistrust of justice, was further aggravated by the obsession of the coming end of the world, and by the fear of hell, of sorcerers and of devils. The background of all life in the world seems black. Satan covers a gloomy earth with his somber wings.”
― Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages

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