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Killing someone and giving birth to someone are two violent actions through which, magically, man tries to put himself in God’s place. The victim of a homicide is always helpless, but never as helpless as the victim of a birth. There is as much innocent blood spilled in a childbirth as in a homicide. If procreation is a free choice, then life is fundamentally unnecessary pain.

— Julio Cabrera Projeto de Ética Negativa (1989)

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Regretting having to die should be structurally identical to regretting being born, because it is not in our power being born in a non-mortal way.

The fundamental fact of life that we need to understand is that human beings are able to desire intensely and unconditionally something that lacks value.

The problem is that they come here and talk about their philosophical problems in their language, and we go there and talk about their philosophical problems in their language.

Films do not "have" a meaning that has to be interpreted, but they establish with the viewer an interrelationship from which an unintended meaning arises which was nowhere waiting to be found.

Philosophers have always spoken of life as a "preparation for death", and of philosophy as a "learning to die". But there is a wisdom prior to that: learning to abstain; not putting anyone in the situation of having to learn to die.

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And pressing forward honor reality.

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