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“لاحظ فيورباخ إذا كنا قد أحسسنا بالإلهي على طول الخط وتبين عدم وجود إله، فما ندعوه بالإلهي أتى منا نحن في المقام الأول.”
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“His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding diversity of phenomena and take shelter in the bosom of simplicity and immensity; a forbidden penchant that was entirely antithetical to his mission and, for that very reason, seductive-a proclivity for the unorganized, the immeasurable, the eternal: for nothingness.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
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― More Die of Heartbreak
― More Die of Heartbreak
“(...) nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
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