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Zen became a powerful movement to explore the lesser-known reaches of the human mind.
“justice must have an improvisational character if it is not to fall back into the sort of legal structure that, in spite of its intentions, can only result in the perpetuation of injustice.”
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“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.”
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
― Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
“as soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency.”
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
― Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology
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