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Now at the end, we come back to the beginning: to the situation of the world here and now, from which all understanding must start and to which it must return. In all existential thinking it is we ourselves, the questioners, who are ultimately in question.

— William Barrett Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958)

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