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Inasmuch as the essence of community is affectivity, the community is not limited to humans alone. It includes everything that is defined in itself by the primal suffering of life and thus by the possibility of suffering. This pathos-with is the brosdest form of every conceivable community.

— Michel Henry Material Phenomenology (1990)

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To be born is not to come into the world. To be born is to come into life.

I am the Truth. Toward a philosophy of Christianity (1996)

No abstraction, no ideality has never been neither in position to produce a real action nor, by consequence, what only represents it.

Affectivity has ever accomplished its work when the world rises.

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That which is felt without the intermediary of any sense whatsoever is in its essence affectivity.

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