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“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

tags: mortality

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“man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity”
― Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology, Vol 2: Existence and the Christ

tags: existentialism, freedom

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“Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

tags: truth

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“A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally”
― Irvin Yalom

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“The nuns taught us there are two ways through life, the way of Nature and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow.

Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries.

Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things.”
― Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

tags: grace, love

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