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Suffering makes up the tissue of the existence, it is the place where the life becomes living, the reality and the phenomenological effectivity of this gradual change.

— Michel Henry The Essence of Manifestation (1963)

La souffrance forme le tissu de l'existence, elle est le lieu où la vie devient vivante, la réalité et l'effectivité phénoménologique de ce devenir.

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Michel Henry, L'Essence de la manifestation, 1963, t. 2, § 70, p. 828

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