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The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life…

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we…
To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once…
The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity…
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but…
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done…
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
People create the reality they need in order to discover themselves
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

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