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Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
When you observe the quality of the thoughts of an alienated man, it is astonishing to see how his intelligence has evolved and how his reason has degenerated. He takes his reality as it is; he desires to enjoy it, to consume it, to touch it, to handle it. He doesn't even wonder what lies behind, because things are as they appear, and where we are going. You cannot eat the meaning, you cannot...
Modern man thinks he loses something, time, when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.
The problem of modern life is that Man always dies before he is fully born.
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