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“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”
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“Everything that lives makes noise. What an argument for the mineral kingdom!”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“As a result of man's sins, corruption is increased and incorporated into both man and the world. This in turn causes God's Light to be increasingly retracted and hidden. The more this corruption is cleansed, on the other hand, and the more people are purified of it, the more God's Light is once again revealed, step by step.”
― The Way of God and An Essay on Fundamentals
― The Way of God and An Essay on Fundamentals
“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
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