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“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
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“To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”
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“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”
― Herzog
― Herzog
“We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)”
― New Seeds of Contemplation
― New Seeds of Contemplation
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