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Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?

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Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Homo Faber (1957)

The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

Montauk (1975)

How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

I'm not Stiller (1955)

The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.

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It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

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