He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
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A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
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