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- Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one…
- Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact…
- The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of…
- Language lies outside of society because it is its foundation; but it also lies within society because that is the only place where it exists…
- Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
- Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
- I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were…
- Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks…
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