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“Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.”
― Hunger
― Hunger
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.”
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“Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.”
― The Life of the Mind
― The Life of the Mind
“I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“Because the actor always moves among and in relation to other acting beings, he is never merely a "doer" but always and at the same time a sufferer. To do and to suffer are like opposite sides of the same coin, and the story that an act starts is composed of its consequent deeds and sufferings. These consequences are boundless, because action, though it may proceed from nowhere, so to speak, acts into a medium where every reaction becomes a chain reaction and where every process is the cause of new processes”
― The Human Condition
― The Human Condition
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