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“... to proclaim the truth is to suffer.”
—Søren Kierkegaard
in: “Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks”
“Well every person has a wall to go to, every person has heart valves to cure in the cold night air. But you know none of us is pure. You know the anger that language shelters, that love obeys.”
—Anne Carson,
from Plainwater: Essays and Poetry; The Anthropology of Water.
“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus