"He was too tough to experience disappointments and……" — Jean-Francois Lyotard
"He was too tough to experience disappointments and resentments - negative affections. In this nihilist fin de siècle, he was affirmation. Right through to illness and death. Why did I speak of him in the past? He laughed, he is laughing, he is here. It's your sadness, idiot, he'd say."
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Jean-Francois Lyotard
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